Random House New Releases - Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing

Seabiscuit by George Newbern

2010-11-16T00:30:00-05:00

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by George Newbern

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | History - United States - 20th Century; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Biography & Autobiography | $22.50 | 978-0-307-87863-2 (0-307-87863-5)

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:

Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.

Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.

From the Hardcover edition.

Seabiscuit by Campbell Scott

2010-10-12T00:30:00-05:00

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by Campbell Scott

Abridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | History - United States - 20th Century; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Biography & Autobiography | $14.99 | 978-0-7393-7083-4 (0-7393-7083-9)

Bloodlines by Maggie Estep

2009-02-25T00:30:00-05:00

Bloodlines A Horse Racing Anthology
Edited by Jason Starr and Maggie Estep

eBook, 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors); Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing | $11.99 | 978-0-307-48232-7 (0-307-48232-4)

From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (Diary of an Emotional Idiot; Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a thrilling story about a hit man hired to knock off a horse mid-race. Laura Lippman contributes a vivid tale about a young man who makes money selling parking places at the Preakness and the intriguing woman he meets. Here is Bill Barich on the misfortunes of an Irish gambler, Joe R. Lansdale on one man’s ambition to win a mule race in east Texas, Laura Hillenbrand on the Kentucky Derby, and James Surowiecki on the wisdom of horse-racing crowds. Jonathan Ames adds his unique theory of horse love, Meghan O’Rourke shares her touching recollections of going to Saratoga as a child, and Jane Smiley tells of her experiences raising thoroughbreds. This standout collection on horse-racing featuring twenty authors, from national bestsellers to Pulitzer Prize winners, is as page-turning as it is diverse.

Also includes pieces by Ken Bruen, Steven Crist, Maggie Estep, William Nack, Scott Phillips, John Schaefer, Jerry Stahl, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Wallace Stroby, and Daniel Woodrell.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts

2008-12-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Man Who Listens to Horses The Story of a Real-Life Horse Whisperer
Written by Monty Roberts

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Ballantine Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Sports & Recreation - Equestrian; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing | $16.00 | 978-0-345-51045-7 (0-345-51045-3)

Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer–an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing “horse sense” is based on a lifetime of experience. In The Man Who Listens to Horses, Roberts reveals his unforgettable personal story and his exceptional insight into nonverbal communication, an understanding that applies to human relationships as well. He shows that between parent and child, employee and employer, abuser and abused, there are forms of communication far stronger than the spoken word that are accessible to all who will learn to listen. This new edition features engaging photographs, a chapter that traces Roberts’s amazing experience gentling with a mustang in the wild, and an Afterword about the remarkable impact this book has had on the world.

A Fine Place to Daydream by Bill Barich

2008-12-10T00:30:00-05:00

A Fine Place to Daydream Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish
Written by Bill Barich

eBook, 240 pages | Vintage | Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Travel - Europe - Ireland | $11.99 | 978-0-307-48485-7 (0-307-48485-8)

Twenty-five years after Laughing in the Hills, his racetrack classic, Bill Barich tells the story of how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck. Barich travels his adopted country and meets the leading trainers and jockeys; the beleaguered bookies who work rain or shine; and a host of passionate, like-minded fans—from Father Sean Breen, the “Racing Priest,” to T. P. Reilly, whose peculiar betting system turns on a horse’s looks.

Witty, philosophical, and vividly written, A Fine Place to Daydream is a paean to the real Ireland, a moving tale of a surprise romance, and a thrilling account of a hugely exciting season at the track.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Ruffian by Jane Schwartz

2007-12-18T00:30:00-05:00

Ruffian Burning From the Start
Written by Jane Schwartz

eBook, 336 pages | Ballantine Books | History; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Nature - Horses | $11.99 | 978-0-307-41656-8 (0-307-41656-9)

"A colorful story...Ruffian was nothing if not a heartbreaker. Her story, dramatically recounted by Jane Scwartz, epitomizes both the adrenaline-pumping glory and gut-wrenching ruthlessness inherent in the sport of horse racing."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Here is the story f the exceptional filly, a horse so dominating, she was likened to legend. Beginning with her earliest days in Kentucky, the book follows Ruffian at every stage of her career and through the agony of her final hours--venturing behind the scenes of the racing world, and exploring the politics and personalities that came together to shape this exroardiinary filly's life.

From the Paperback edition.

A Fine Place to Daydream by Bill Barich

2007-02-13T00:30:00-05:00

A Fine Place to Daydream Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish
Written by Bill Barich

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Vintage | Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Travel - Europe - Ireland | $13.95 | 978-1-4000-7809-7 (1-4000-7809-1)

Bloodlines by Maggie Estep

2006-09-12T00:30:00-05:00

Bloodlines A Horse Racing Anthology
Edited by Jason Starr and Maggie Estep

Trade Paperback, 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors); Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing | $14.95 | 978-1-4000-9695-4 (1-4000-9695-2)

A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley

2005-04-19T00:30:00-05:00

A Year at the Races Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Written by Jane Smiley

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Anchor | Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing | $13.95 | 978-1-4000-3317-1 (1-4000-3317-9)

“Every horse story is a love story,” writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of her obsession.

In particular she follows a sexy filly named Waterwheel and a grey named Wowie (he “tells” a horse communicator that he wants it changed from Hornblower) as they begin careers at the racetrack. Filled with humor and suspense, and with discourses on equine intelligence, affection, and character, A Year at the Races is a winner.

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

2003-07-01T00:30:00-05:00

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand

eBook | Ballantine Books | History - United States - 20th Century; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Biography & Autobiography | $11.99 | 978-0-345-46739-3 (0-345-46739-6)

BONUS: This edition contains a Seabiscuit discussion guide and an excerpt from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:

Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.

Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.

Ruffian by Jane Schwartz

2002-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Ruffian Burning From the Start
Written by Jane Schwartz

Trade Paperback, 336 pages | Ballantine Books | History; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Nature - Horses | $16.00 | 978-0-345-45000-5 (0-345-45000-0)

During two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. Unbeaten in her first ten starts, she shattered one record after another, dazzling crowds with both her beauty and her brilliant speed. Then tragedy struck on the afternoon of July 6, 1975. Ruffian broke down–on the lead–in the middle of a match race at Belmont Park. Later that night she had to be destroyed.

Ruffian: Burning from the Start is the story of this exceptional filly, a horse so dominating, so powerful, that writer Walter Farley once suggested she was more like the fictional legend, the Black Stallion, than any colt he had ever seen. Beginning with her earliest days in Kentucky, the book follows Ruffian at every stage of her career and through the agony of her final hours– venturing behind the scenes of the racing world and exploring the politics and personalities that came together to shape this extraordinary filly’s fate.

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

2002-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand

Trade Paperback, 448 pages | Ballantine Books | History - United States - 20th Century; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Biography & Autobiography | $16.00 | 978-0-449-00561-3 (0-449-00561-5)

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

2001-03-06T00:30:00-05:00

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand

Hardcover, 416 pages | Random House | History - United States - 20th Century; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Biography & Autobiography | $27.00 | 978-0-375-50291-0 (0-375-50291-2)

Seabiscuit by Campbell Scott

2000-07-04T00:30:00-05:00

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by Campbell Scott

Abridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | History - United States - 20th Century; Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing; Biography & Autobiography | $12.95 | 978-0-375-41966-9 (0-375-41966-7)

Random House New Releases - Sports & Recreation - Horse Racing

Seabiscuit by George Newbern

Seabiscuit An American LegendWritten by Laura Hillenbrand Read by George Newbern

Seabiscuit by Campbell Scott

Seabiscuit An American LegendWritten by Laura Hillenbrand Read by Campbell Scott

Bloodlines by Maggie Estep

Bloodlines A Horse Racing AnthologyEdited by Jason Starr and Maggie Estep

The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts

The Man Who Listens to Horses The Story of a Real-Life Horse WhispererWritten by Monty Roberts

A Fine Place to Daydream by Bill Barich

A Fine Place to Daydream Racehorses, Romance, and the IrishWritten by Bill Barich

Ruffian by Jane Schwartz

Ruffian Burning From the StartWritten by Jane Schwartz

A Fine Place to Daydream by Bill Barich

A Fine Place to Daydream Racehorses, Romance, and the IrishWritten by Bill Barich

Bloodlines by Maggie Estep

Bloodlines A Horse Racing AnthologyEdited by Jason Starr and Maggie Estep

A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley

A Year at the Races Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and LuckWritten by Jane Smiley

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit An American LegendWritten by Laura Hillenbrand

Ruffian by Jane Schwartz

Ruffian Burning From the StartWritten by Jane Schwartz

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit An American LegendWritten by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit An American LegendWritten by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit by Campbell Scott

Seabiscuit An American LegendWritten by Laura Hillenbrand Read by Campbell Scott

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by George Newbern

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by Campbell Scott

Bloodlines A Horse Racing Anthology
Edited by Jason Starr and Maggie Estep

The Man Who Listens to Horses The Story of a Real-Life Horse Whisperer
Written by Monty Roberts

A Fine Place to Daydream Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish
Written by Bill Barich

Ruffian Burning From the Start
Written by Jane Schwartz

A Fine Place to Daydream Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish
Written by Bill Barich

Bloodlines A Horse Racing Anthology
Edited by Jason Starr and Maggie Estep

A Year at the Races Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Written by Jane Smiley

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand

Ruffian Burning From the Start
Written by Jane Schwartz

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit An American Legend
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by Campbell Scott