Thoroughbred Books

Smarty Jones has 83 foals in training in his first crop, nothing to worry about !!!

This is the very best history of horse racing in America written in modern times! It has wonderful illustrations and really makes you want to jump right into the Sport of Kings! I would advise any novice to buy this book--but also any expert!

This is the best horse book I have ever read! The author has amazing insight and talent.

This was a wonderfully crafted history of Maryland horseracing. The archival photographic images are extensive and spectacular, as are the stories that accompany the photos. Anyone interested in horses, Maryland history or the racing community will enjoy and be informed by this book. Bravo!

This is a awsome book. Melanie really adds something to the TB book series.

The almanac has been published and updated for several years by Thoroughbred Times magazine.

It is an absolute must for a fan of Thoroughbred racing, as it covers the sport from the major races, to the personalities and the legendary runners. What I find particularly interesting is the history of the tracks and wonder why such historic facilities like Hialeah Park are left to decay.

You will spend hours going through the fascinating details of the sport and certainly come up with more than a few trivia questions that will stump your pals as you watch the post-parade for the race that has that live longshot.

This book is a must for anyone considering the restoration of an antique motorcycle. You will be shown strange motorcycle technology that you never thought existed! Jeff Clew does a great job in explaining what manufacturers chose to do why they did it to your bike. You have to give the author credit; explaining British Bike logic is hard to do!

Sometimes the logic is there, and sometimes the logic is lost, but the author makes that point too, and will tell you when and why something was better. If your own motorcycle has a particularly odd bit of technology integrated into a broken part, you're often stuck with what you've got. Jeff Clew explains how to go about setting it right, and points you in the right direction for a top-notch restoration.

The book does not cover any one project from start to finish, and rightly so. That is not the intent. Doing a step-by-step restoration of one bike would actually take away from this book. It would ignore other bikes out there and the reader would lose the great overview that this book describes so well.

So, go elsewhere if you want someone to tell you exactly how to restore your 1914 Douglas from basket to beauty. It will instead tell you what kind of trouble to expect during a restoration project, and help you get a clearer picture of what is necessary to rebuild a classic motorcycle. Sadly, some people just buy a set of Whitworth wrenches and think they can have at it! What they really need is a book like this to give them a dose of reality. Motorcycle restoration is extremely time consuming and takes a lot of patience. This book serves two purposes: It is a beautiful overview of the subject and it is also fair warning for what you might be getting yourself into.

RIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH * THE LIVES AND RACES OF AMERICA'S GREAT THOROUGHBREDS AS TOLD IN THEIR OWN WORDS by John Devaney & Howard Liss and illustrated with "95 Magnificent Photographs" / Race Horse Book / Horse Racing Book / THOROUGHBRED RACING / THOROUGHBREDS / RACETRACK / RACE TRACK / HORSE RACING HISTORY / RACE HORSE BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY / GREAT INFO & SUPERB PIX !!! / HC/DJ 1ST
RIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH * THE LIVES AND RACES OF AMERICA'S GREAT THOROUGHBREDS AS TOLD IN THEIR OWN WORDS by John Devaney & Howard Liss and illustrated with "95 Magnificent Photographs". Copyright 1987. 182 pages. Stated FIRST EDITION and a FIRST PRINTING from the number line. Hardcover with dustjacket in VERY GOOD condition.

FROM THE DUSTJACKET
"They're off! Here are sixteen of the greatest Thoroughbred champions ever to pound down the racetracks of America to stunning victories and they tell their own stories in their own words. Listen to Man o' War. who lost only one race in his entire career. And to Seabiscuit, the California champion who beat War Admiral in a two-horse race. To Whirlaway, as he won the Triple Crown under the whip of jockey Eddie Arcaro. To Count Fleet and how he won his races by as much as thirty lengths. To Native Dancer, the TV matinee idol of the track fans. To Citation, boasting as his winnings topped $1 million. To Silky Sullivan. when he came from twenty-eight lengths behind to win by a nose. To Kelso, Horse of the Year in 1960, 1961, 1962, and 1963. To Buckpasser, priding himself for being without a flaw in his conformation. Lend an ear to Secretariat about his winning the Triple Crown, including his incredible thirty-one-length victory in the Belmont. To Forego, forever bitching about the weight he was assigned to carry, but winning. To Ruffian, who ended her spectacular career by breaking her leg in a match race with Foolish Pleasure. To Affirmed, describing his stiff competition with Alydar. To Seattle Slew, when he was syndicated for stud for $12 million. To Spend a Buck. the really cheap horse who surprised the racing world by winning the Kentucky Derby and then collected a $2 million bonus for winning the Jersey Triple Crown. And finally, to John Henry, the aging Pete Rose of racing, who at nine became the oldest horse in racing history to be named Horse of the Year. This is a book every horse lover and racing fan will have to own. They can't say `neigh'!"

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: SLIPS
MAN O' WAR
SEABISCUIT
WHIRLAWAY
COUNT FLEET
CITATION
NATIVE DANCER
SILKY SULLIVAN
KELSO
BUCKPASSER
SECRETARIAT
FOREGO
RUFFIAN
AFFIRMED
SEATTLE SLEW
SPEND A BUCK
JOHN HENRY
INDEX

This book is a collection of 20 horse stories. Some of them are short stories while others are extracts from popular books such as Black Beauty and The Black Stallion.

I am a horse lover and have always enjoyed reading horse stories. I like that the stories in this book really varied, from a classic like Black Beauty to a Sherlock Holmes story and many others. It was nice that they were not all the same type of story and that some were more obscure. I thought that I was a horse expert, but there were a lot of stories in here that I had not heard of before reading this book, so it would be great for horse enthusiasts. My only complaint is that I did not enjoy the extracts from the longer books as much as I enjoyed the short stories. Since I did not read all of the books that these extracts came from, I felt that they were a little hard to follow. However, I think that they could pull a reader in enough to get them to find the original book and read the entire thing.

I believe I have found a book that explains, in practical terms, all the information about pedigrees, dosage, nicks. It has helped me get a grasp, as a breeder, of the things I need to look for to breed a quality runner