Horse Racing History

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    • Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865­-1913
    • Auteur(s): Steven Riess
    • Narrateur(s): Emil N Gallina
    • Durée: 17 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Linda Carroll, David Rosner
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin T. Collins
    • Durée: 10 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Legend
    • Auteur(s): Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 13 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
    • Auteur(s): Milton C. Toby
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Ferraro
    • Série: Horses in History, Livre 2
    • Durée: 6 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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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    • Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century
    • Auteur(s): Sharon B. Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Gorden
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-11-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): William Nack
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 14 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-05-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
    • Auteur(s): Edward Bowen
    • Narrateur(s): Barry Abrams
    • Durée: 9 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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)....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
    • Auteur(s): Kim Wickens
    • Narrateur(s): Vivienne Leheny
    • Durée: 11 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Equine Journey Through Human History
    • Auteur(s): Susanna Forrest
    • Narrateur(s): Pearl Hewitt
    • Durée: 13 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
    • Auteur(s): Jack Gilden
    • Narrateur(s): Jack Gilden
    • Durée: 11 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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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    • When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
    • Auteur(s): John Eisenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Jones Allen
    • Durée: 9 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Celebration of the World's Most Famous Horse Race
    • Auteur(s): Anne Holland
    • Narrateur(s): David Thorpe
    • Durée: 10 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise
    • Auteur(s): Joe Drape
    • Narrateur(s): Aaron Abano
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Horses in History
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer S. Kelly
    • Narrateur(s): James McSorley
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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"....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of the Most Famous Horse in American History
    • Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Clem
    • Durée: 1 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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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....

    Prix courant: 9,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing
    • Auteur(s): Milton C. Toby
    • Narrateur(s): Barry Abrams
    • Série: Horses in History, Livre 9
    • Durée: 9 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Milton C. Toby addresses the historical and contemporary context of the Thoroughbred industry's most pressing issue....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Legend (Abridged Edition)
    • Auteur(s): Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrateur(s): Campbell Scott
    • Durée: 5 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2001-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Seabiscuit was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. For two years, he fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing...

    Prix courant: 15,09$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown (Horses in History)
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer S. Kelly
    • Narrateur(s): Lee Ann Howlett
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
    • Auteur(s): Katherine C. Mooney
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 4 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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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....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Horses in History
    • Auteur(s): Peter Lee
    • Narrateur(s): Chaz Allen
    • Durée: 8 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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