harness racing

Introduces careers associated with harness racing including groom, trainer, driver, and owner.

Discusses the buying, breeding, and training of horses for harness racing, describes the event and its rules, and introduces several famous champions.

A boy is entrusted to attend the birth, train, and drive a blood bay colt that is the great hope of an aging reinsman who refuses to be reconciled to the fact that sulky-racing has moved from the county fair to the big night time, moneymaking raceways.

Initially chagrined at the importance of horses in the lives of his harness-racing relatives, Randy soon catches the "fever," too.

Young Tom Messenger must pick up the reigns of Bonfire, a horse he has cared for since birth, when the veteran rider Jimmy Creech's health takes a turn for the worse.

Scarlett, a nervous young filly from a fine family of trotters, finds a home on a run-down farm in Ohio, where she makes friends with a friendly rooster and a motherless goat and calms down enough to fulfil her promise as a harness racer.

Portrays a day in the life of Danielle, who works in her family's racing stable and helps in the family business of training racehorses.

"Engaging images accompany information about the Morgan horse. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.