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Hart, Alison

Summary: In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HOR

Livesey, Margot

Summary: The family life and security of a Boston optometrist is shattered by his wife's growing obsession with a beautiful thoroughbred horse and her dreams of becoming a serious competitor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIV

Summary: National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NAT

Summary: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic National

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NAT

McEvoy, John

Summary: Chicago racetrack publicist Jack Doyle, former advertising man and amateur boxer, accepts the challenge of a new job in the world of thoroughbred horse racingthat of jockeys agent. His client is a seventeen-year-old riding phenom from Ireland named Mickey Sheehan, who has decided to try her luck in the States. They prove to be an effective team until someone begins secretly administering...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCE

Michaels, Fern.

Summary: The return of Nealy Coleman to SunStar, the home she fled thirty years earlier with her illegitimate child Emmie, has serious repercussions for Nealy's brothers Pyne and Rhy, as well as all the other Thorntons and Colemans associated with the thoroughbred horse farm, including Nealy herself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIC

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