Horse Racing History

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    • Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
    • By: Milton C. Toby
    • Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
    • Series: Horses in History, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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....

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    • An Equine Journey Through Human History
    • By: Susanna Forrest
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Jim Haynes
    • Narrated by: Jim Haynes
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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    • A Celebration of the World's Most Famous Horse Race
    • By: Anne Holland
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a mere inch divides the loser from the winner at the end of nearly four-and-a-half miles and 30 challenging fences....

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    • By: Richard Askwith
    • Narrated by: Richard Askwith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestigious sporting contest: the Grand Pardubice steeplechase....

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    • By: Linda Carroll, David Rosner
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Taking listeners 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....

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    • By: Declan Murphy, Ami Rao
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Julie Maisey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • A natural on a horse since he was able to walk, and imbued with a pure love of riding, Declan Murphy became one of the most brilliant jockeys of his generation before his world came crashing down....

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    • The History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing
    • By: Milton C. Toby
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Series: Horses in History, Book 9
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • Milton C. Toby addresses the historical and contemporary context of the Thoroughbred industry's most pressing issue....

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    • The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
    • By: Edward Bowen
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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)....

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    • Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century
    • By: Sharon B. Smith
    • Narrated by: Rob Gorden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • His winning percentage was well above Jordan’s shooting average or Woods’s domination of golf tournaments. And he sold products and drew spectators like no one had ever done....

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    • Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865­-1913
    • By: Steven Riess
    • Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, author Steven Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing's heyday....

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    • Horses in History
    • By: Jennifer S. Kelly
    • Narrated by: James McSorley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • He was always destined to be a champion. Royally bred, with English and American classic winners in his pedigree, Sir Barton shone from birth, dubbed the "king of them all"....

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    • A Kentucky Colt, the Epsom Derby, and the Rise of the Modern Thoroughbred Industry
    • By: James Nicholson
    • Narrated by: John Chester
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 18-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown (Horses in History)
    • By: Jennifer S. Kelly
    • Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The story of one of racing's earliest dynasties, the historic Belair Stud, began with William Woodward's childhood memories of grand days at the racetrack, inspiring dreams of breeding a champion or two of his own....

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    • The Life of the Most Famous Horse in American History
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-17
    • Language: English
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    • Of all the things that a nation, or even an individual, need to survive a crisis, none is perhaps as necessary as hope....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
    • By: Kim Wickens
    • Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Kim Wickens, a lawyer and dressage rider, became fascinated by this legendary horse when she learned that twelve of Thoroughbred racing's thirteen Triple Crown winners descended from Lexington....

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    • Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
    • By: Jack Gilden
    • Narrated by: Jack Gilden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979, he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes—and transcended his sport on a run of 12 consecutive stakes victories....

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    • Horses in History
    • By: Peter Lee
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • On the morning of the 1979 Belmont Stakes, Spectacular Bid stepped on a safety pin in his stall, injuring his foot. He had impressively won the first two races - the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness - but finished third in the Belmont, most likely due to his injury....

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    • The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise
    • By: Joe Drape
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-16
    • Language: English
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    • History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion is, the team behind him has been all too human while on the road to immortality....

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    • The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
    • By: Katherine C. Mooney
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century....

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