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1) Wild horses
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of.
2) Man o' War
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In order to raise money to rebuild a one-hundred-thousand-dollar barn, destroyed by fire, Alec returns to racing the Black.
4) To the hilt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The "hilt" of Francis's delightful 35th thriller refers to the jewel-encrusted, solid gold handle of the ceremonial sword of Scotland's would-be king, Bonnie Prince Charlie. A descendant of the Scottish earl to whom the prince gave the hilt, narrator Alexander Kinloch lives in an unelectrified bothy in the Scottish mountains, supporting himself through his paintings. Al's keen visual sense allows him to draw the faces of the four thugs who beat him...
5) The edge
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
Tor Kelsey, an undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, is assigned to protect guests on "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train," individuals whose safety is imperiled by real-life murder and mayhem.
Author
Publisher
Armchair Detective Library
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling "master of crime fiction and equine thrills," an aristocratic amateur jockey gets involved in a criminal investigation (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
The youngest child of rich, neglectful parents, Henry Grey was occasionally accused of being an overgrown brat. But all Henry wanted was a career that would...
7) Reflex
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
A jockey with an interest in photography begins searching for information as to why a racetrack photographer was killed. Unwittingly he becomes the killer's next victim.
8) Blood sport
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1968, c1967]
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times bestseller, "galloping entertainment" about a British secret agent searching for a missing racehorse in the United States (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks of vacation. So when his boss asks for his help assisting millionaire...
9) Straight
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Derek is thrust into trouble and danger after the death of his brother. His only hope of survival is to identify the enemy.
10) Kentucky rich
Author
Series
Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The return of Nealy Coleman to SunStar, the home she fled thirty years earlier with her illegitimate child Emmie, has serious repercussions for Nealy's brothers Pyne and Rhy, as well as all the other Thorntons and Colemans associated with the thoroughbred horse farm, including Nealy herself
11) True Betrayals
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A romantic thriller set in the world of horse racing. It begins when Kelsey Byden discovers her mother--supposedly dead for 20 years--is in jail for killing her lover. The mother owns a racing stable in Virginia whose neighbor is handsome Gabe Slater. Kelsey and Gabe's meeting leads to rivalry, love and murder.
12) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1975
Language
English
Description
A racehorse owner determines to get even with the trainer who has been cheating him.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A boy is entrusted to attend the birth, train, and drive a blood bay colt that is the great hope of an aging reinsman who refuses to be reconciled to the fact that sulky-racing has moved from the county fair to the big night time, moneymaking raceways.
14) Rat race
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Language
English
Description
Assigned to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore is forced to make an emergency landing, and he soon finds out that the mob has been tampering with the horseracing industry.
15) Hot money
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ian perseveres in his search into the past; discovering the hate that builds silently through the years, the terrible price the relatives pay for their fathers' sins, and a twisted knot of passion compelled to turn love to punishment.
16) Under Orders
Author
Series
Sid Halley novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest-which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race only a few hours earlier. Now Halley's quest for answers will push him to his very limits-both on and off the track.
17) Driving force
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
When a hitchhiker picked up by one of his drivers is later found murdered, ex-jockey Freddie Croft, the owner of a profitable fleet of horse vans, is drawn into the mystery.
18) Longshot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
John, a travel guide writer, out of necessity begins writing the biography of a racehorse trainer and encounters unforeseen dangers.
19) Risk
Author
Language
English
Description
Roland Britten, an accountant by profession but an amateur jockey by preference, awakens one morning to discover that he cannot move, he cannot see, and the only sound he can hear is the noise of an engine close by. He finally deduces that he is lying in the dark, tied near a generator, But why? Where? And by Whom?
20) Shattered
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The accidental death of jockey Martin Stukely implicates his friend Gerard Logan, a glassblower, in a dangerous search for a missing videotape.