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2) Break in
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Jockey Kit Fielding has been riding the de Brescou's horses in a succession of triumphs on the race course. But this winning streak is about to end. Kit's twin sister, Holly, has come to him in desperation. Threatened by financial scandal, she and her husband may lose their training stables. Kit soon finds, though, that a greater danger lurks behind the threat-one that could be fatal. Narrator Simon Prebble has received enthusiastic praise for his...
3) High stakes
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Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing, yet with the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds, and the prowess of a beautiful black hurdler named Energise, he has brought home several wins. But his winning streak is about to come to a fast end when he discovers trouble in his own stables -- trouble that could bring about his own termination if he doesn't watch his step.
4) The danger
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Giuseppe, sometimes called Peter, Europe's most elusive and cold-blooded kidnapper, who preys on the world of racing, and Andrew Douglas, the Continent's toughest, most successful anti-kidnapping operative, match wits.
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Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings, Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it-but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet's working for the other, and to the...
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A dead hitchhiker, empty canisters found at the bottom of several trucks, and the murder of a harmless mechanic are the bizarre events that lead ex-jockey Freddie Croft to suspect that his transport company, Driving Force, is involved in drug smuggling, or something far worse.
7) Slay-ride
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Dick Francis takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing with this gripping tale about the illusion of film and the reality of murder.
Champion jockey Robert Sherman has disappeared right before his wife was about to give birth. And right before he was sure to win the National. A coincidence?
British investigator David Cleveland doesn't think so. He's convinced someone made Sherman disappear, but with every answer David gets, the body count...
8) Wild horses
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Valentine Clark knows a lot of secrets about the horse racing world of Newmarket, England. Now, on his deathbed, the elderly blacksmith reveals the most horrifying secret of all to his young friend, film director Thomas Lyon. On location in Newmarket, where he is shooting a motion picture about the decades-old, unsolved murder of a local horse trainer's wife, Thomas knows that Valentine's cryptic revelation holds the solution to the murder-and the...
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
11) Race horses
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32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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Learn what it takes to become a racehorse.
12) Lord of misrule
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Jaimy Gordon's engrossing Lord of Misrule is a National Book Award winner. In the early 1970s, horse trainer Tommy Hansel cooks up a crafty get-rich-quick scheme. But his plans go awry when everyone at the Indian Mound Downs track seems to be on to his shenanigans. Complicating matters further is Tommy's tragic love, Maggie. She adores the horses in all their rundown glory and becomes fascinated by the misfits who populate the backwater West Virginia...
14) To the hilt
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Featuring the gripping plot, dramatic settings and believable characters that readers have come to expect from Dick Francis, To the Hilt displays the master at the top of his form. Alexander Kinloch is definitely the black sheep of his noble family, choosing the precarious life of a painter over a lucrative job in his stepfather's brewery. But when a trusted assistant disappears with millions of pounds, Alexander is reluctantly thrust into a foreign...
15) Dead certainty
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198 pages ; 23 cm.
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A fast-paced mystery set in the cut-throat world of horse-racing: the first in the brand-new Harry Radcliffe series.
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Doctor Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big horse race. The doctor runs into some problems. The doctor runs a high priced clinic for the well-off who do not have a clue that he has a degree in Veterinary Medicine.
17) Dead on course
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198 pages ; 23 cm.
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Champion jump jockey Harry Radcliffe, back in the saddle and race riding again after a severe fall, reckons his life is now on course. But while racing at Market Rasen, he's handed a note sent from Jake Smith, about to be released from prison after serving a sentence for GBH. Jo-Jo, Jake's sister, has died -- and Jake is convinced she was murdered. Because Harry discovered who killed his brother at Leicester race-course, Jake wants him to uncover...
18) Under orders
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It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup day that really troubles supersleuth Sid Halley. Last seen in 1995's former champion jockey Halley knows all too well the perils of racing--but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest. Yet this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker, who only a few hours earlier, won the coveted Triumph Hurdle.
19) City of fortune
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"Being married had advantages that attorney Gideon Bates had never even considered during his bachelor days. For example, he no longer had to think of polite excuses when a client offered to introduce him to a marriageable daughter, as he was starting to suspect Mr. Sebastian Nolan was working his way up to doing. "I'd like to arrange for a sum of money to be settled on my daughter, Irene," Nolan was saying. He was a large man, tall and substantial...
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