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1) Wild horses
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Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of.
2) Man o' War
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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A fictionalized biography of the American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
3) Motor mouth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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At the start of this cool comedy thriller from bestseller Evanovich, her second novel to star Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby (after 2004's Metro Girl), Barney and her unfaithful NASCAR racing honey, Sam Hooker, find themselves in trouble after discovering the shrink-wrapped body of ruthless businessman Oscar Huevo in a rival racer's car hauler. The pair must pull together to protect a high-tech gizmo that can revolutionize racing-and save their lives....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
6) Dino-racing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
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Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion. He was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. At a gallop, he jabbed one foreleg sideways, as if he were swatting flies. For two years, he fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing, misunderstood and mishandled, before his dormant talent was discovered by three men.
One was Red Pollard, a failed prizefighter and failing jockey...
8) To the hilt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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The "hilt" of Francis's delightful 35th thriller refers to the jewel-encrusted, solid gold handle of the ceremonial sword of Scotland's would-be king, Bonnie Prince Charlie. A descendant of the Scottish earl to whom the prince gave the hilt, narrator Alexander Kinloch lives in an unelectrified bothy in the Scottish mountains, supporting himself through his paintings. Al's keen visual sense allows him to draw the faces of the four thugs who beat him...
9) Comeback
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When globe-hopping British ambassador Peter Darwin decides to determine why a vet friend has had too many "patients" die, he is caught in a web.
10) Born to trot
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Marguerite Henry horseshoe library volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.
11) Twice shy
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A surefire computerized betting system draws desperate men who will do anything to gain control of it.
12) Dead cert
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Presents a story pitting an amateur jockey against a well organized criminal network.
13) Break In
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Kit Fielding novels volume 1
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Slurs in a gossip column jeopardize the business of Holly and Bobby Allardeck. Holly's twin brother, steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding, searches for the person behind the plot.
14) Gran Turismo
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2023.
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Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
15) Nerve
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From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a jockey investigates the source of the rumors threatening his career (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Rob Finn is a talented young jockey on the rise, though nothing can help him rise above the...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Rob Finn is a talented young jockey on the rise, though nothing can help him rise above the...
16) For kicks
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From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a horse breeder goes undercover to investigate a horse doping scheme (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a...
18) Decider
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[1993]
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In Decider, inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feud and the target of a ruthless killer.
19) Kentucky rich
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Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 1
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The return of Nealy Coleman to SunStar, the home she fled thirty years earlier with her illegitimate child Emmie, has serious repercussions for Nealy's brothers Pyne and Rhy, as well as all the other Thorntons and Colemans associated with the thoroughbred horse farm, including Nealy herself
20) Banker
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When young investment banker Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing, he finds his life in business blown to smithereens. For suddenly the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance the purchase of a champion racehorse is threatened by an apparent defect in the animal. The as Tim desperately searches for answers, he falls headlong into a deadly deal of violence and murder.