Books
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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Handicapping 101
Finding the Right Horses and Making the Right Bets
By Brad Free (DRF Press)
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Movies
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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Betting on Horse RacingFor Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)
By Richard Eng (Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist)
See it at Amazon.com
Betting ThoroughbredsA Professional's Guide for the Horseplayer
By Steve Davidowitz (Foreword by Andrew Beyer)
See it at Amazon.com
Picking WinnersA Horseplayer's Guide
By Andrew Beyer (By the Author of Beyer on Speed)
See it at Amazon.com
Thoroughbred RacingAinslie's Complete Guide
By Tom Ainslie (The Classic Guide)
See it at Amazon.com
Handicapping 101Finding the Right Horses and Making the Right Bets
By Brad Free (DRF Press)
See it at Amazon.com
Movies
Black Gold (1947) - VHSStarring: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.
See it at Amazon.com
Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition) (2003) - DVDStarring: 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.
See it at Amazon.com