horse racing

Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.

"[Presents] narrative play-by-plays of record-making Triple Crown moments sports fanatics should know"--Back cover.

"Saving her coppers to buy a beloved horse that has been transferred to the royal stables of the king of Mael Dunn, new stablehand Sonnia must compete in a dangerous, highly illegal night ride to protect her horse"--OCLC.

In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.

"Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe--and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a novel that is based on a true story that confronts America's history of racism. In 1850 Kentucky, enslaved groom Jarret cares for and trains a horse, Lexington, that becomes a champion. A painting of Jarret and the horse is done but it's lost in the Civil War. Then in 1954 New York City, gallery owner Martha Jackson becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting. Finally, in 2019 Washington, DC, Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Black graduate student at Georgetown, find the painting and set out to learn the story of the Black horsemen and restore the painting.

Horses is an A-Z companion to perhaps the most loved of all domesticated animals. The book's entries include a wealth of unexpected, fascinating and serendipitous information, from horse-slang phrases to horses in British pub signs, and from the horse in advertising to the horse as a food item. Themes such as the horse in warfare and the horse in folklore abound. These features add up to a richly satisfying accumulation of information about the horse's role in human culture and society over two millennia. Horses will not only be a helpful reference source and congenial bedside book for those who work with or enjoy horses, but also a satisfying and browsable companion for the inquisitive general reader.

Sonnia desperately wants to have enough money to buy Ricochet, the horse she adores at the king's stables, but her family barely makes enough money from their struggling pony-ride business to send her and her sister to school. Everything changes when Ricochet is moved to a racetrack across town, and Sonnia gets a job taking care of the horse there. With the opportunity to earn more money to help support her family and save up to buy Ricochet, she thinks everything is falling into place. In addition, Sonnia's selected to join the junior racing cadre, a group of young riders training to become jockeys, but things get complicated when she learns some of the riders are participating in the Night Ride, a dangerous and illegal race that takes place in the middle of the night.

Tor, undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, masquerades as a waiter on a horse-racing junket called the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.

Sally and her grandfather hope their new colt will be as great a race horse as Man o' War.