Racing History

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    • Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
    • Written by: Milton C. Toby
    • Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
    • Series: Horses in History, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-28
    • Language: English
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    • 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 American Legend
    • Written by: Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2010-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach - Here’s How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners About Training and Racing
    • Written by: Philip Maffetone, Bill Katovsky
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2014-11-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The world's fastest times for the marathon have been dropping since the distance of 26.2 miles was made official nearly one hundred years ago....

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    • Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century
    • Written by: Sharon B. Smith
    • Narrated by: Rob Gorden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2013-11-05
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • Written by: William Nack
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2011-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown....

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    • The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
    • Written by: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West of aerospace engineering and its unprecedented impact on our lives....

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    • Written by: Linda Carroll, David Rosner
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 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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    • The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise
    • Written by: Joe Drape
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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 Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
    • Written by: Kim Wickens
    • Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2023-07-11
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish
    • Written by: Lyle Lewis, Sue Coulstock
    • Narrated by: Lyle Lewis, Heather Henderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2024-01-26
    • Language: English
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    • A former endangered species biologist looks at the ongoing sixth mass extinction through the prism of human behavior, personal experience, ecology, evolutionary biology, and contemporary conservation efforts....

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    • How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
    • Written by: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Fly Girls recounts how a cadre of women banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky....

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    • Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
    • Written by: Jack Gilden
    • Narrated by: Jack Gilden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2022-08-10
    • Language: English
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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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    • An Equine Journey Through Human History
    • Written by: Susanna Forrest
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • Written by: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2014-11-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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    • A Celebration of the World's Most Famous Horse Race
    • Written by: Anne Holland
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-18
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
    • Written by: Edward Bowen
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865­-1913
    • Written by: Steven Riess
    • Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 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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    • Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing
    • Written by: Kyle Petty, Ellis Henican
    • Narrated by: Kyle Petty
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2022-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Stock-car racing star, country singer, and sports broadcaster Kyle Petty shares his familial legacy, intertwined with NASCAR’s founding and history, in Swerve or Die—written with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellis Henican....

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    • Formula 1 Racing's Greatest Rivalry
    • Written by: Tom Rubython
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2013-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The greatest duel in Formula 1 history: the 1976 season between Austrian Niki Lauda and Britain's James Hunt....

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    • The History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing
    • Written by: Milton C. Toby
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Series: Horses in History, Book 9
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2023-12-26
    • 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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