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1) Straight
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
srs p.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-four-year-old Derek Franklin, recovering from a race injury, is thrown into familial chaos when his older brother Greville dies from a bizarre, seemingly random accident. With little more to go on than his brother's expensive toys and a few vague diary entries, Derek becomes more and more convinced that his very straight brother was brought down by some crooked men.
3) Crisis
Author
Series
A Dick Francis novel volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harrison Foster is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. There is far more to the 'simple' fire than initially meets the eye. For one, human remains are found among the equestrian ones. Who is the mystery victim? Harry is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred racing where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than that of the humans who attend to them. Can Harry solve...
4) Iced
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
5) Shattered
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The accidental death of jockey Martin Stukely implicates his friend Gerard Logan, a glassblower, in a dangerous search for a missing videotape.
6) Triple crown
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization an informant who is passing on confidential information to those under suspicion in American racing. At the Kentucky Derby, Jeff joins the FACSA team in a raid on a horse trainer s barn at Churchill Downs, but the bust is a disaster, and someone ends...
7) Hands down
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
A zebra raised on a farm in Kentucky dreams of becoming a racehorse. As he thrusts himself into a world of elite athletes, Stripes must prove he's fast enough and tough enough to run with the big horses.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
10) Man o' War
Author
Publisher
Yearling/Random
Pub. Date
1962
Physical Desc
x, 339 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
Author
Series
Richard Jury volume 18
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While flat on his back in a hospital bed, sleuth Richard Jury overhears a story that provokes his next murder investigation.
14) Black Gold
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
[1957]
Physical Desc
172 p. illus. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes. He knows Black Gold would be great if he was his rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish. And Black Gold grows strong and fast under his careful hands. Soon it will be time for the most important race in America. Do they really have what it takes to win?
Black Gold's inspirational story proves that the power of love and dedication can make any dream...
16) The horsewoman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sharing the dream of being the best horsewoman in the world, Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter champion riders, break their vow of never going up against each other when they both participate in the competitions leading up to the Olympics.
17) City of fortune
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Miles is back in an all-new Counterfeit Lady Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. Being married had advantages that attorney Gideon Bates had never even considered during his bachelor days. For example, he no longer had to think of polite excuses when a client offered to introduce him to a marriageable daughter, as he was starting to suspect Mr. Sebastian Nolan was working his way up to doing. "I'd like to arrange...