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Non-Fiction Reading - A Day at the Races

Horse Rack TrackAgainst the Odds: Riding for My Life by Jerry Bailey [BIO BAILEY]

Baffert: dirt road to the Derby by Bob Baffert [B BAFFERT]

The Big Horse by Joe McGinniss [798 .4 MCG]

Blood Horses: notes of a sportswriter's son by John Jeremiah Sullivan [636 .132 SUL]

Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Bluebloods...and Won -- by The Funny Cide Team, Sally Jenkins [798.4 FUN]

The Great Black Jockeys: the lives and times of the men who dominated America's first national sport by Edward Hotaling [798.40092 HOT]

Great Women in the Sport of Kings: America's Top Women Jockeys Tell Their Stories by Scooter Toby Davidson [798.40092 GRE]

The Home Run Horse: inside America's billion-dollar racehorse industry and the high-stakes dreams that fuel it by Glenye Cain [798 .4 CAI]

Horse of a Different Color: a tale of breeding geniuses, dominant females, and the fastest Derby winner since Secretariat by James D. Squires [798.4 SQU]

In Service to the Horse: Chronicles of a Labor of Love by Susan Nusser [798 .24 NUS]

A Jockey's Life: the biography of Lester Piggott by Dick Francis [B PIGGOTT]

Man o’ War: a legend like lightning by Dorothy Ours [784.4 OUR]

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Lauren Hillenbrand [798.40 HIL]

Secretariat by Timothy T. Capps [798.4 CAP]

Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack [798.4 NAC]

Shoemaker by Bill Shoemaker [B SHOEMAKER]

Smarty Jones: America's Horse by Sports Publishing LLC [798 .4 SMA]

The Sport of Queens: the autobiography of Dick Francis by Dick Francis [798 FRA]

Stud: Adventures in Breeding by Kevin Conley [636.1322 CON]

Thoroughbred Champions: top 100 racehorses of the 20th century by Blood-Horse, Inc. [798.4 THO]

Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach [338.76361 AUE]

A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck by Jane Smiley [798 .4 SMI]

Posted: 07/11/06


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