horse racing

"American Endurance : The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West depicts nine cowboys as they race thousands of miles across the American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. At the finish line was Buffalo Bill Cody, who had set up his Wild West Show next to the fair"--Provided by publisher.

Tells the story of how owner Charles Howard, trainer Tom Smith, and jockey Red Pollard turned Seabiscuit into a horse racing legend, and presents nearly 150 rare photos.

A biography of Jimmy Winkfield, the last African-American to ride a winner in the Kentucky Derby, discussing the challenges he faced in the course of becoming one of the sport's best jockeys and trainers in the U.S., Russia, and France in the early twentieth-century.

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.

In graphic novel format looks at horse trainer Gail Ruffu and her decision to take a racehorse from the hands of a group of abusive co-owners and the legal battles that followed.

"Murray the horse dreams of winning big races just like the rest of his family but he has one problem--he's just not that fast! When horse Ned Plumb twists his ankle at the start line, his jockey spots Murray in the crowd and says, 'Fancy a race?' Murray finally gets his chance to shine and beat the neigh-sayers with a rather unusual race technique"--OCLC.

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.

Bobbie Jo tries to turn a beat-up old horse into a champion barrel racer.

After the death of her mother, Raesha becomes obsessed with winning the Nationals in horse racing above all else.

In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.