Horse Racing History

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    • The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise
    • By: Joe Drape
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,517 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 Untold Story of Secretariat, the World’s Greatest Racehorse
    • By: Lawrence Scanlan
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Equestrian writer Lawrence Scanlan has written a tribute to an exceptional man that is also a backroads journey to a corner of the racing world rarely visited....

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    • By: Jane Smiley
    • Narrated by: Shelley Thompson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • Many astonishing and affecting things happen at the racetrack....

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    • By: Richard Eng
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies is packed with information that teaches you the ins and outs of the racetrack. You'll learn how to improve your odds, avoid common betting mistakes, and just plain have fun at the races....

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    • The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
    • By: Edward Bowen
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • An American Legend
    • By: Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,862 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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    • By: Linda Carroll, David Rosner
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 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 True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America
    • By: Charles Leerhsen
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Who was the most famous athlete one hundred years ago? A horse. In fact, harness racer Dan Patch was more than a celebrity, he was once the most recognizable figure in American sports....

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    • By: William Nack
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 743 ratings
    • In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown....

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    • Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century
    • By: Sharon B. Smith
    • Narrated by: Rob Gorden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
    • By: Kim Wickens
    • Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • 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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    • Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
    • By: Milton C. Toby
    • Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
    • Series: Horses in History, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • Horses in History
    • By: Jennifer S. Kelly
    • Narrated by: James McSorley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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"....

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    • Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865­-1913
    • By: Steven Riess
    • Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • An American Legend (Abridged Edition)
    • By: Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrated by: Campbell Scott
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • 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...

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    • A Celebration of the World's Most Famous Horse Race
    • By: Anne Holland
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-21
    • 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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    • Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
    • By: Jack Gilden
    • Narrated by: Jack Gilden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 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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    • Moore Hall and Four Generations of Ireland's Aristocratic Moore Family
    • By: Michael Gerard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Historical novel based in Ireland and Spain during the period from 1640 to 1923. It tells the story of the Moore family who are part of the landed ...

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    • The History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing
    • By: Milton C. Toby
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Series: Horses in History, Book 9
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • 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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