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Nini Panini
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Hey all! I really enjoy reading nonfiction. I especially love reading race horse biographies. I've read Secretariat by Bill Nack, Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, Ruffian: Burning From the Start by Jane Schwartz, and Gold Rush by Avalyn Hunter. I'm currently working on a book on Dr. * by Steve Haskin. If you guys have any racing books you recommend, I'd love if you posted, as I want to expand my collection. I'm open to anything!
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Found this book at a thrift store a few years ago, it helped get me into horse racing.
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You might like Mark Cramer's ... SCARED MONEY?
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It has a Long title, and is an older book, but is worth the read.

Wild Ride : The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc. , America's Premier Racing Dynasty
by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach

The author investigates all the mismanagement of Calumet Farm after the elderly owners passed away and their heirs and the farm manger took over. Although he was never taken to court for breaking Alydar's leg and then collecting on the millions in insurance, most people think that is exactly what the farm manger did to that magnificent horse...who at around age 19 was nearing the end of his stud career. Insurance fraud, though, was something that could be proved. So this book has a number of good elements in it...the story of how Calumet Farms became great...talks about their famous horses, with Alydar ending up as one of the best stallions in the USA, siring Derby Winners, and also becoming a noted broodmare stallion. And how it all fell apart and how questions were raised, then answered in regards to why it all fell apart.

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Northern Dancer -The Legend and the Legacy Muriel Lennox

Frankel - The Legend - Racing Post

A Century of Champions by John Randall and Tony Morris

Thoroughbred Stallions - Tony Morris is a good read too....

oh and a little plug for my friends bestseller 'Stable Lass' by Gemma Hogg ,about the life a stable girl in a racing yard in Middleham (one of the three main training centres in England) .It's a hoot!
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I second the Calumet book Stormy Recommended.

I also liked Citation: In a Class by Himself
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Muriel Lennox has written a few on Canadian Racing and she can turn a phrase as good as any. I’m currently reading Frederico Tesio’s book ‘In His Own Words’. Originally written in Italian, I question some of the translations, but it’s a cool read.
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An older book worth reading is Vincent O'Brien's Great Horses, by Ivor Herbert and Jacqueline O'Brien. Covers everything from his National Hunt years through Nijinsky II, The Minstrel, etc.
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Mike Helm The book is A Breed Apart.
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