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Author
Language
English
Description
Molly Ballard was desperate. It wasn't easy caring for two brothers and two sisters, and keeping a roof over their heads. She needed money more than ever. Yet in a fit of anger she quit her job as a groom at the posh Wyland Farm in Kentucky's rich turf—and then stole out of the tack room with $5,000 in FBI cash. So when Agent Will Lyman catches her in a lie, she agrees to cooperate in a sting. She'll do anything to protect her family, to shield...
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 9
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Wonder's Pride is ready to race again after recovering from an injury. But not everyone wants Pride back at the racetrack.
5) Only a cow
Author
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lucille's dream is to race, and even though her friend Thunder tells her that cows do not belong in horse races, she seizes the opportunity to compete when she goes to the county fair.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 17
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ashleigh can't ride Glory in the biggest race of his career because she is going to have a baby. Can a new jockey be found in time?
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the heat of June, all England seems to head for Epsom Downs. For months before, people have been waiting and plotting for this day. Everywhere money jingles and plans are laid. As the months pass the pace quickens and dastardly deeds are done, foxing even the stalwart police detective Captain MacTurk.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, 2002.
Language
English
Description
After Virginia's mother is killed in a freak riding accident, her father sells the offending mare, Twister, and forbids Virginia to ever ride. When Twister later dies giving birth to a foal, Virginia breaks the ban and grooms Twister's offspring, Stormy, to compete in the big Memorial Day 50 Mile Endurance Race.
Author
Series
Belle Meade Plantation novels volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The third and final installment in the bestselling Belle Meade Novels collection!"--
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kevin Chong has grand plans. He draws up a to-do list of major milestones that will give him the life he always wantedand the life that will inspire awe and envy in his friends. Things like settling down and starting a family; learning a foreign language; getting a tattoo. But these grand plans go out the window when Chong makes an unconventional decision: he's going to buy a racehorse. Not the whole thinghe'll become partowner of...
Publisher
Treeline Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Little Lord Fauntelroy (1936): This heart-warming story features a spunky Freddie Bartholomew as the little boy from Brooklyn, New York, who discovers that he is really an Earl. With a personality no one can resist, he melts the heart of his ill-tempered grandfather. He soon transforms into a friend to all in a sailor suit--destined to draw derision. He must fight the local hooligans to demonstrate that he isn't a sissy. Mickey Rooney stands out as...
14) To win her favor
Author
Series
Belle Meade Plantation novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He's come to Nashville hoping to buy land and begin farming, determined to stay as far away from thoroughbred racing as possible. When Maggie's father makes him an offer he shouldn't accept, it...
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Cantankerous trainer and young jockey enter the Black (stallion) in France's biggest race, the Prix de Chantilly. There they encounter crooked gamblers and unscrupulous businessmen who will do anything to put a fix on the race.
16) Racing Stripes
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The baby is then rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked. He knows...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of the race horse Seabiscuit, who thrived with a loving jockey and trainer and won the hearts of millions around the country.
19) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of the champion racehorse and the three men who discovered him, chronicling how a former bicycle repairman purchased the horse despite its lack of promise, and how the horse rose to become one of the sport's top performers.
Author
Series
Time spies volume 7
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the magical spyglass transports the three Chapman children to 1938 Maryland, they attend the race between two champion racehorses--War Admiral , the high-spirited favorite, and Seabiscuit, the western underdog.
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