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Betting on Horse Racing
For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)
By Richard Eng (Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist)
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Betting Thoroughbreds
A Professional's Guide for the Horseplayer
By Steve Davidowitz (Foreword by Andrew Beyer)
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Picking Winners
A Horseplayer's Guide
By Andrew Beyer (By the Author of Beyer on Speed)
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Thoroughbred Racing
Ainslie's Complete Guide
By Tom Ainslie (The Classic Guide)
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At the Wire
Horse Racing's Greatest Moments
By Edward L. Bowen
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Great Horse Racing Mysteries
True Tales from the Track
By John McEvoy
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Handicapping 101
Finding the Right Horses and Making the Right Bets
By Brad Free (DRF Press)
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Black Gold (1947) - VHS
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille
Description: Tony Quinn often wound up playing an Indian. In this film, a story based on a race horse saga co-starred his wife at that time, Katherine DeMille. The setting is Oklahoma and Quinn plays an Indian who owns a remarkable race horse and takes in a young Chinese orphan who rides the horse to the winner's circle.
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Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition) (2003) - DVD
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper
Description: Proving that truth is often greater than fiction, the handsome production of Seabiscuit offers a healthy alternative to Hollywood's staple diet of mayhem. With superior production values at his disposal, writer-director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) is a bit too reverent toward Laura Hillenbrand's captivating bestseller, unnecessarily using archival material--and David McCullough's familiar PBS-styled narration--to pay Ken Burns-like tribute to Hillenbrand's acclaimed history of Seabiscuit, the knobby-kneed thoroughbred who "came from behind" in the late 1930s to win the hearts of Depression-weary Americans. That caveat aside, Ross's adaptation retains much of the horse-and-human heroism that Hillenbrand so effectively conveyed; this is a classically styled "legend" movie like The Natural, which was also heightened by a lushly sentimental Randy Newman score. Led by Tobey Maguire as Seabiscuit's hard-luck jockey, the film's first-rate cast is uniformly excellent, including William H. Macy as a wacky trackside announcer who fills this earnest film with a much-needed spirit of fun. --Jeff Shannon --This text refers to the Theatrical Release edition.
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