Horse Racing

Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets....

Jim Haynes loves the sport of kings nearly as much as he loves bush yarns, and in this volume he brings these two great loves together....

In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only 13 horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season)....

Containing startling revaluations and a searingly honest insight into the life of a top jockey, this touching memoir is a must-listen for all sporting fans....

The forthright, fascinating memoir of Peter Moody, trainer of Black Caviar and one of Australia's most high-profile and best liked racing identities....

With passion and singular insight, Forrest investigates the complexities of human and horse coexistence, illuminating the multifaceted ways our cultures were shaped by this powerful creature....

Horse Racing can be difficult to get started in for the novice learning about form, track conditions and which jockey is doing well at the moment....

In the late 1980s, a spectacular three-year-old female racehorse named Winning Colors was being groomed for success under her famous Hollywood trainer D. Wayne Lukas and the billionaire owner of the San Diego Chargers pro-football team Eugene Klein....

It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, to steal Shergar, one of the thoroughbred industry's most renowned stallions....

Kieren Fallon was one of the world's greatest jockeys, but his career was littered with controversial incidents. Now, in his powerful and honest autobiography, he tells all....

Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own....

The home run horse, the runner that makes your fortune and changes your life, can come from anywhere....

They had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen....

History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978....

Hоrѕе training саn bе аn еxсiting аnd rеwаrding еxреriеnсе fоr bоth thе horse trаinеr аnd thе horse. Hоwеvеr, there are mаnу things thаt you саn do which can mаkе thе horse trаining еxреriеnсе a nightmаrе. Thiѕ book will gо оvеr thе basics оf hоrѕе trаining аnd will hеlр you undеrѕtаnd....

Who would have believed that a knobby-kneed little colt called Seabiscuit would become one of the most celebrated racehorses of all time....

During the Great Depression, Seabiscuit captured American hearts from the soup kitchens to the White House....

Two brothers live parallel lives on either side of the US-Mexico border. This is the dramatic true story of how their worlds collided in a major criminal conspiracy....

To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of her obsession....

The stories and verses in this collection are not just anecdotes, racing history pieces or rehashed feature articles from sports journalists; first and foremost they are good literature....

A quarter of a million people braved miserable conditions at Epsom Downs on June 2, 1954, to see the 175th running of the prestigious Derby Stakes....

The heart-warming, moving story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of training a racehorse and Dream Alliance, the horse who defied the odds to become a champion....

As the woman who trained the great Best Mate to win three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups, no one could be better qualified than Henrietta Knight to discover what makes today's top jumps trainers succeed.... 

After nearly 130 years of trying, only 11 colts have swept the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes to earn the Triple Crown....

As a Jew whose parents survived the Nazi concentration camps, I learned life is fragile, and survival arbitrary. As a jockey, I developed an approach to life of living in the moment....

Tausende von Likes hat die Social Media-Seite vom Arschlochpferd, die augenzwinkernd die Online- und Offline-Gemeinschaft der Reiterinnen und Reiter...

Of all the things that a nation, or even an individual, need to survive a crisis, none is perhaps as necessary as hope....