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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Her mother calls it "a breathtaking piece of folly," but fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown is determined: every night she prays to be the best rider in England, and every day she trains to win the world's most famous steeplechase, the Grand National. No woman has ever competed in the race, let alone won it. Velvet is skinny and frail, and her mount is a rough country horse that she won in a raffle. But she whispers her hopes and dreams into his ear,...
Author
Series
Sid Halley novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Retired jockey Sid Halley is stunned by a suicide that disrupts the racketeering trial in which he as about to testify.
3) Even money
Author
Language
English
Description
Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a book-maker so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings at Royal Ascot. When a man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned is thrown into turmoil. He'd been told that both his parents died when he was a baby. Barely an hour later, his father stabbed by an unknown assailant. Before dying, he warns Ned to "be very careful." But of whom? Of what? Ned finds...
6) Showdown
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 472 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting a California ranch that he is unable to support financially, cowboy Bobby Cameron performs horse breaking services for wealthy clients and becomes involved in the life of millionaire's daughter Milly.
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Dick Francis's beloved investigator Sid Halley returns in the riveting new mystery by New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis. Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game....
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a...
10) Front runner
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's own life. Never one to leave suspicious events alone, Hinkley begins investigating the jockey and the races...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned in the first place--the administration of illegal drugs to his horses? Then many more horses test positive...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire,...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 5
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's own life. Never one to leave suspicious events alone, Hinkley begins investigating the jockey and the races...
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