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1) Enquiry
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Language
English
Description
"No jockey like being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes' career looks doomed. He knows he's been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail." Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 1969.
2) Hot money
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Ian perseveres in his search into the past; discovering the hate that builds silently through the years, the terrible price the relatives pay for their fathers' sins, and a twisted knot of passion compelled to turn love to punishment.
3) Longshot
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When he is hired to write the biography of a racehorse trainer, author John Kendall encounters more than he bargained for as he stumbles into a web of danger and death in rural England.
4) Straight
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Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Derek is thrust into trouble and danger after the death of his brother. His only hope of survival is to identify the enemy.
5) Bonecrack
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English
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At midnight Neil Griffon's home is broken into and he is abducted by masked men. When he wakes up, hours later, Neil discovers that "unless he cooperates" his kidnappers will destroy his father's racing stable, his precious horses and even Neil himself.
6) Blood sport
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a New York Times bestseller, “galloping entertainment” about a British secret agent searching for a missing racehorse in the United States (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks...
7) Comeback
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.
8) Wild horses
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Language
English
Description
As he lies on his deathbed, Valentine Clark harbors a secret he is desperate to be rid of. In his delirium he makes his last confession to Thomas Lyon, a visiting film maker shooting a movie on racing, whom he mistakes for a priest. Wild horses could not drag the secret from a priest, but in Lyon's case silence is merely an option, especially now that the secret has put his life in danger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Each summer in the ancient hill town of Siena, Italy, there erupts one of the most extraordinary, exciting and dangerous horse races in the world--the Palio. This is the story of Giorgi Terni, a boy of the Maremma Marshes, who rode a half-Arabian cart horse in the Palio.
10) Nerve
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English
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"A man doesn't shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Matthews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticking out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe." -- Cover.
11) Iced
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English
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Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenalin rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St. Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, he gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement. Seven years before, Miles left...
12) Flying finish
Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Henry Grey, son of a rich family, seeks out adventure in a job transporting racehorses by air and finds himself fighting for his life when he discovers his cargo is something very different.
13) Shattered
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When glassblower Gerard Logan investigates a friend's death after a racecourse fall, he finds more hazards in his path than he ever thought possible.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Black is the fastest horse in America, and Alex Ramsay is preparing him for a big race. Suddenly there comes a new challenger: the island stallion, Flame! An unproven racer, Flame can run like the wind. Black and Flame come face to face on the racetrack.
15) In the frame
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Series
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The murder of his cousin's wife involves an English painter in the pursuit of an Australian art forging gang.
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Language
English
Description
"History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion is, the team behind him has been all too human while on the road to immortality. Written by an award-winning New York Times sportswriter, American Pharoah is the definitive account not only of how the ethereal colt won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes, but how he changed lives. Through...
17) Bolt
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Series
Kit Fielding novels volume 2
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English
Description
n this sequel to "Break In", Kit Fielding, champion jockey, attracts trouble on all fronts. He has problems with racing and his fiancee, as well as the old Fielding-Allerdeck feud.
18) True betrayals
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English
Description
Kelsey Byden always believed that her mother was dead. But now, after all this time, she has discovered the truth: Naomi Chadwick is still alive—after spending years in prison for the murder of her lover. Now, at Naomi’s Virginia horse farm, Kelsey is trying to sort out a lifetime of deception—and her feelings about her mother. The bonds of love can be fragile...as Kelsey learned from her recently ended marriage. But as the two women rebuild...
19) Come to grief
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English
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A stunning successor to Whip Hand, starring ex-champion-jockey-turned-investigator Sid Halley. Having exposed an adored racing figure as a monster, Sid must testify at the man's trial. But, on the morning of his appearance, a tragic suicide shatters the proceedings and jars Sid's conscience, leading him to believe that there's more to the death than has yet come to light.
20) The edge
Author
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Tor Kelsey, an undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, is assigned to protect guests on "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train," individuals whose safety is imperiled by real-life murder and mayhem.
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