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English
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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. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs,...
2) Team player
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 50
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"Parker Townsend and his Thoroughbred mare, Foxglove, have proven that they have the talent to compete in the Olympics in combined training. But they still haven't made the team..."
Author
Language
English
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 Paras is 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...
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 47
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 58
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having failed to place in the Kentucky Derby, Christina and her horse Wonder's Star are hoping to win the Preakness, yet still have time for Christina's high school graudation activities.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga.
8) Horse
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English
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"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...
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