Laura Hillenbrand, an award-winning racing journalist, delivers an in-depth, winning biography of a horse, detailing the lives of three men: Tom Smith, a silent, eccentric trainer; Charles Howard, a wealthy horseowner; and Red Pollard, a half-blind, down-on-his-luck jockey, whose combined talents produced an unlikely champion. The struggles of ...
In a fast-paced narrative--colorful, rich, and full of record-setting performances and towering personalities--Eisenberg chronicles the tremendous story of the year in which two horses would come to embody a nation galloping inevitably toward civil war.
Most of us know the legend of Secretariat, the tall, handsome chestnut racehorse whose string of honours runs long and rich: the only two-year-old ever to win Horse of the Year, in 1972; winner in 1973 of the Triple Crown, his times in all three races still unsurpassed; featured on the cover of "Time", "Newsweek", and "Sports Illustrated"; the ...
"Secretariat is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the grandstand."Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit. In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest thoroughbred in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown. ...
Before Seabiscuit, there was Dan Patch. At a time when champion horses were household names, a workhorse from an ordinary farm became an undefeated legend. Leerhsen brings to life an all-but-forgotten hero of a bygone era. 8 pages of b&w photos.
This is a gritty, passionate, insider's portrait of the blue-collar side of horse-racing. Once host to turf champions such as Seabiscuit and boisterous throngs of 40,000 spectators, Suffolk Downs, a relentless urban betting factory on the outskirts of Boston, now struggles to survive. "Sufferin' Downs" is where grizzled Thoroughbreds come to end ...
Here is the third edition of the most complete, comprehensive and reliable guide to handicapping and understanding thoroughbred racing. Through twenty best-selling years, "Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing" has taught generations of racing fans how to become expert handicappers and pick winners at the track consistently. Now, in this ...
During two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. She was a record-breaker--big, bold, and fast. Then, on July 6, 1975, in a highly-publicized match race at Belmont Park billed as the "Battle of the Sexes" and watched on television by 18 million people, Ruffian faced the Kentucky Derby ...
Virginia, mother of presidents, is also the mother of American horse racing. From the very beginning, Virginians have risked it all on the track as eagerly as on the battlefield. Follow the bloodlines of three foundation sires of the American Thoroughbred through generations of rollicking races and largerthan- life grandees wagering kingly stakes, ...
"Written with an effortless command of history and language, "Man o' War" frees thoroughbred racing's greatest icon from nearly a century of mythology and mystery . . . A riveting work, researched meticulously and told brilliantly."--Laura Hillenbrand, "Seabiscuit." 16-page photo insert.
In racing, how and where to start, who to turn to for advice, and how much it costs, are questions without easy answers. Cot Campbell of Dogwood Stable demystifies the Thoroughbred ownership process through a unique combination of how-to guide and autobiography. Indispensable for newcomers to the business and not to be missed by those already in ...
Part socioeconomic study, part historical excavation, this look at Kentucky horse breeding details the earliest accounts of horse trading, an oddball horse auction (in which a reserved group of Irish buyers is pitted against a consortium of sheikhs known as the Doobie Brothers), and the fate of the manure from prized horses (Campbell Soup ...
Jane Smiley, who has had horses since she was a small child, writes about not only the race track but her own experiences and--in particular--those of the horses she has loved. Her aim here is to write about horses the way a novelist writes about human characters--because horses are, she insists, are every bit as quirky and interesting as men and ...
Take a front row seat at "the Run for the Roses" with the first comprehensive history of the Kentucky Derby. From mint juleps to the garland of roses, to weeping men and women in the Winner's Circle, "Two Minutes to Glory" is the official story of the world's greatest horse race--the Kentucky Derby. This book is chockablock with facts, figures ...
Totally revised and expanded to cover the newest forms of wagering and the latest handicapping theories, with examples of how to apply them, this book proves that the key to winning at the track is not in one all-powerful secret, but involves using the right tools at the right time.
Everybody in the thoroughbred horse business wants to win the Kentucky Derby, but the odds on making it to the winner's circle at Churchill Downs are about 35,000-to-1. How did a former Chicago newspaper editor bring together the stallion and mare and breed the winner of the world's most famous and important horserace? Jim Squires's Horse of a ...
Foaled in the Balkans, then moved to the lavish Ottoman stables of the Topkapi Palace in the late 1670s, this dark bay stallion was hard-schooled in the disciplines of war. At the age of five, in diamond and ruby-studded harness, he set out to march on Christendom. The attack on Vienna in the summer of 1683 brought the Catholic forces of the ...
A deluxe illustrated edition of one of the most beloved books of our time, with nearly 150 historic photographs personally selected by the author The spellbinding true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated a nation, Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" became an immediate number one bestseller and cultural ...
This portrait of the elite of the horse racing world focuses on the trainers, owners, and jockeys who vie for cherished Triple Crown: The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes.
Nan Mooney came back to her old love--horse racing--the day she heard a broadcast of the Kentucky Derby--after years away from the sport. Her grandmother, May-May, had been a fervent fan of the wild-eyed fans, riders, and horses at the track. After May-May's death, Mooney's interest dwindled. But once rekindled, she's in the throes of love again, ...
After interviewing more than two dozen professional players, the authors have put together six secrets that all of these successful individuals have in common.
He became "the people's horse," the unheralded New York-bred gelding who inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and sweeping to the brink of the Triple Crown. His story is for the underdog in everyone.
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