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The next sure thing

Cree Thunderboy, a young blues guitar player, risks everything when he signs on to pick winning horses at the racetrack for a violent mobster.

Gabriel's triumph

2010
A thirteen-year-old newly-freed slave faces the challenges of freedom and horse racing as he pursues his dream of becoming a famous jockey in Civil War Kentucky and New York.

Gabriel's horses

2009
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.

Proof

1985
Young wine merchant Tony Beach's exposure of a liquor scam sparks a brutal murder and forces the corruption in the liquor industry to spread into the realm of thoroughbred horse racing.

Jockey girl

2016
"A teen girl's quest to find her mother leads her to the big city, and gives her the courage to fulfill her dream of becoming a jockey."--Provided by publisher.

Saving Baby

how one woman's love for a racehorse led to her redemption
Jo Anne Normile fell in love with a thoroughbred foal born into her arms. The breeder said she could keep the colt but only if she raced him. So Jo Anne named the colt "Baby" and set out to keep her promise when he was old enough. Jo Anne fell hard for the "sport of kings" but under the magic she saw all the bad things. For every Seabiscuit there are tens of thousands of racehorses whose lives end in pain and despair because of the indifference and corruption that runs rampant through the world of horse racing. When Jo Anne experienced an accident on a poorly maintained tract, she knew she had to found the most successful horse rescue in the country---an organization that would go on to save more horses than anyone else ever had.

Racing stripes

2005
Stripes, a zebra left behind by the circus, grows up on a farm believing himself to be a horse, and becomes determined to participate in the big race.

Dreamer

inspired by a true story
1997
Cale and her father nurse an injured horse back to health and dream of winning a big horse race. Dreamer, loosely based on a true story, is the story of a Kentucky horse trainer and his daughter who rescue a horse with a broken leg. The two then help nurse the animal back to health and take it to race in the Breeders' Cup. Along the way, father and daughter discover that they have a lot more in common than they ever imagined. Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell, Elisabeth Shue, and Kris Kristoferson head the cast.

Who was Seabiscuit?

2015
An illustrated biography of Seabiscuit, a funny looking horse with a losing streak who was bought and given a second chance by Charles Howard, and after new training and a loving jockey, became a record-breaking racehorse and national celebrity.

The danger

1985
Andrew Douglas, brilliant, insightful, a decent man, and Europe's most successful anti-kidnap operative, must stop Europe's most elusive and cold-blooded kidnapper, known as Guiseppe or Peter.

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