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The Last Triple Crown Winner
Pub Date: Apr 1, 2011
Sports historian Sahadi (One Sunday in December: The 1958 NFL Championship Game and How It Changed Professional Football, 2008, etc.) tells the story of Affirmed's 1978 Triple Crown triumph.
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Pub Date: Nov 14, 2010
A novel of luck, pluck, farce and above all horse racing--not at tony and elegant sites like Churchill Downs and Ascot but rather at a rinky-dink racetrack in Indian Mound Downs, W.Va.
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Pub Date: Aug 1, 2010
The late Dick Francis's 44th, and last, canter around the track echoes several of his greatest hits.
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The Life of Velma Johnston
Pub Date: Mar 16, 2010
Modest tale of a scrappy advocate for wild horses and her three-decade battle for their protection.
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Life at the Track
Pub Date: May 1, 2005
A Chicago journalist spends a lively year playing the ponies.
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Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son
Pub Date: Apr 1, 2004
The offspring of a journalist tells of equine bloodlines and, not incidentally, his own family history.
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