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Old 02-06-2007, 02:28 PM
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Default Favorite Horseracing Book

What is your favorite book on the subject of horseracing?
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Old 02-06-2007, 02:35 PM
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Bally's in Vegas

Edit: Oops!! http://www.amazon.com/Champions-Revi...e=UTF8&s=books
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Old 02-06-2007, 03:59 PM
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you didn't specify if the bok is for handicapping or just to read...my fav is Stud: Adventures in Breeding...there are some laugh out loud moments in that book...it's great.
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Old 02-06-2007, 04:06 PM
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you didn't specify if the bok is for handicapping or just to read...my fav is Stud: Adventures in Breeding...there are some laugh out loud moments in that book...it's great.
I meant really anything on the topic like capping or from the Legends series etc.

I enjoyed that book too...the description of Dynaformer was probably the funniest as this was before I'd ever actually seen breeding 'in practice'. LOL

I enjoyed Three Strides from the Wire.
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Old 02-06-2007, 04:30 PM
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I'm also a sucker for the coffee table type book...I love Barbara Livingston's Old Friends... and I have a beautiful book by Yann Arthus-Bertrand that is simply titled Horses ... it covers many breeds and styles but there is racing in one section
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Old 02-07-2007, 04:04 AM
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W.H.P. Robertson's History of Thoroughbred Racing in America and Damon Runyon's 'Broadway Tales' books..
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Old 02-07-2007, 04:23 AM
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I have two: first Brian mayfield smyths book
about a trainer who started life as a jackaroo & his outlook on training & life.
Second;" Northerly" the unlikely champion.
born dead brought back to life , two offset knees no good for the sales went on to win 9 million a remarkable book about a horse who just hated losing.
my favorite memory of this horse was not of it winning but watching this horse race & take a chunk out of the horse next to it who was trying to pass it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6TgKmX6TM









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Old 02-07-2007, 06:48 AM
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Thanks for posting that Magic! Northerly is a nice horse.

Lonhro is GORGEOUS....I love the stallion brochure for Woodlands Stud, neat website too.
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