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1) Horse
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Seabiscuit was a great horse, perhaps the best ever, running in one of the worst decades ever, the Great Depression, bringing excitement and pleasure to millions of Americans when they needed those emotions desperately. This is the true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated the world.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston private investigator Spenser enters the dangerous world of horse racing when he is hired to oversee security for Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old colt destined to become the next Secretariat.
6) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While not looking the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero.
7) Secretariat
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After agreeing to take over her father's horse farm, a housewife draws together the resources to train Secretariat, a horse that ultimately turns out to be a Triple Crown winner.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris Parasis a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
9) Dark horse
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in South Wales, a barmaid and her husband breed a racehorse with the help of their community.
10) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
Author
Publisher
McPherson & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Lord of Misrule follows five characters -- scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain -- through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia. Horseman Tommy...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed...
13) Dream horse
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by Welsh bartender Jan Vokes.
Author
Series
Kentucky volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nealy Coleman was only 17 and deathly ill when she took her baby, Emmie, and fled into a snowstorm before her father could carry out his threat to send her little girl to an orphanage. Fate guided them to Maud Diamond's stud farm, where Nealy's sad story and her talent for working with horses earned her a place in the old woman's heart and convinced Maud that Nealy alone could chose the right mare and stallion to produce the farm's third Kentucky...
15) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Kentucky volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The third and final volume in Michaels's Kentucky series finds Nealy Coleman Diamond facing her greatest challenge yet--to produce another Derby winner and repair the damage to her relationship with her daughter, Emmie.
Publisher
Mill Creek
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (347 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Misty: Young brother and sister Paul and Maureen Beebe are determined to buy the filly of a wild Assateague mare at the annual Pony Penning Day.
The Red Fury: The story of Frankie, a lost 10-year-old Indian boy who finds himself thrust into the bigotry of a turn-of-the-century white community. Only one man has the heart and courage to give him a home. Only one woman, the schoolteacher, stands up for him against the entire town.
Lassie, the painted...
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