2,254円 Matthew Benns takes us inside the murky world of Australia's racing industry. Dapper horse trainer Les Samba was in Melbourne for the annual yearling sales when he turned down an Italian meal with racing contacts saying: "I have got to meet a bloke." Just hours later he was laying dead, in the mi...

1,989円 So You Think's incredible journey. As a youngster, So You Think caught the eye of Australia’s legendary trainer Bart Cummings. He liked the future he saw in his gangly frame, and soon, So You Think captivated Australasia with his rockstar good looks, his brilliance and strength. As a three-year-o...

3,315円 The Extraordinary Life of Australia’s First International Racehorse. Wartime Sydney, a small and weedy racehorse was kicking his way through the top tier of Australian racing. He was Shannon, one of the fastest horses the nation had ever seen. Between 1943 and 1947, Shannon broke record after rec...

3,315円 The tell-all tale - on and off the track - of a legendary man and his extraordinary family. The Waterhouse name is synonymous with Australian horse racing and bookmaking. For the first time, the family’s patriarch, Bill Waterhouse, tells the story of his remarkable life ‘playing the odds’. Bill W...

3,315円 The story of Subzero, one of the most popular horses in Australian history. This is more than a racing story. Sure, there is the breeder who took a punt on an untried stallion, the owners who thought they were buying a fast two-year-old, the trainer who was breaking records and the jockey whose c...

2,122円 Dr Tony Ryan Award finalist, 2019 'A wonderfully insightful, detailed and emotional biography of the legendary trainer's later years' Racing Post '[Cecil's] is a remarkable story and it has now been told with compassion, love, honesty and wonderful insight by Tony Rushmer' David Walsh, Sunday Tim...

1,327円 Everybody in the thoroughbred horse business wants to win the Kentucky Derby, but the odds on making it to the winner's circle at Churchill Downs are about 35,000-to-1. How did a former Chicago newspaper editor bring together the stallion and mare and breed the winner of the world's most famous a...

794円 The Voice: The Unparalleled Life of Roger Huston is a blockbuster book about the life of the number 1 horse racing announcer in the countryーRoger Hustonーwhich many agree on. Huston has called more than 178,000 races, covering at least 144 tracks in nineteen states and eight countries. Known as ...

3,315円 A wonderful, forgotten racing story set in The Great Depression In 1932, they said there would never be another Phar Lap. Yet within months there came a racehorse so wildly brilliant that he was instantly compared to the dead champion. He was Peter Pan. Within months of Phar Lap's death, Peter Pa...

1,657円 Bethenny Frankel of Real Housewives of New York and Shark Tank . . . The New York Yankees’ Mickey Mantle and George Steinbrenner . . . Showbiz legend Frank Sinatra, comedian Don Rickles and actor James Caan . . . Rick Pitino, former Basketball Head Coach of the NY Knicks and Boston Celtics. What ...

903円 Su “Cavalcare.. si può” l’autore ripercorre tutte le tappe per riuscire a imparare da solo ad andare a cavallo nei boschi del Parco Nazionale del Circeo, in solitario, godendosi panorami, profumi, natura, sport e favolose galoppate in riva al mare di Sabaudia e propone… "Quello che mi è sempre pi...

325円 Abraham Chait was involved in harness racing and ran Putnam Valley Stables. He was heavily invested in the Algam Corporation that controlled racing at Yonkers Raceway. Chait's role in organized crime was first made public in November 1952. A federal official tied him to the crime syndicate run by...