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2) Triple crown
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 6
Language
English
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Description
"Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization--an informant who is passing on confidential...
7) Longshot
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010, ©1990
Language
English
Description
When he is hired to write the biography of a racehorse trainer, author John Kendall encounters more than he bargained for as he stumbles into a web of danger and death in rural England.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Thoroughbred horse trainer Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing operation by shipping four ringers to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claimers at long odds, and then get out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack in the West Virginia panhandle, everybody notices from the start: Kidstuff the farrier, track super Smithers, an old groom Medicine Ed, gypsy owner Deucey Gifford, eventually...
12) On swift horses
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"A contemporary portrait of a family subsumed by the scars of slavery"--
"Hellsmouth, a willful thoroughbred filly with the blood of Triple Crown winners flowing through her veins, has the legacy of the Forges riding on her. One of the oldest and proudest families in Kentucky, the Forge family is as mythic as the history of the South itself. Descended from one of the first settlers to brave the Gap, Henry Forge, through an act of naked ambition,...
14) Proof
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005, ©1985
Language
English
Description
Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party ... literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion--and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.
17) Mr. Darley's Arabian: high life, low life, sporting life : a history of racing in twenty-five horses
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest Dick Francis thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author of Damage. In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's...
19) Black gold
Author
Publisher
Aladin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A heroic small-boned horse with a will to win is finally ridden to glory by his devoted jockey.
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