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The Last Triple Crown Winner

By Lou Sahadi (Author)

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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LORD OF MISRULE

By Jaimy Gordon (Author)

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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By Dick Francis (Author) , Felix Francis (Author)

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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WILD HORSE ANNIE AND THE LAST OF THE MUSTANGS

The Life of Velma Johnston

By David Cruise (Author) , Alison Griffiths (Author)

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

By Ted McClelland (Author)

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

By John Jeremiah Sullivan (Author)

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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