Million-Dollar Horse

Million-Dollar Horse
Author: Bonnie Bryant
Publisher: Skylark
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2013-03-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307825973

Money isn't everything . . . Pine Hollow Stables has a new resident, and while The Saddle Club loves all horses, they aren't impressed by this one. Honey-Pie is a sweet old mare, but there's nothing special about her--or is there? It turns out that Honey-Pie is a million-dollar horse! She inherited her million from her owner, Emma Fredericks. Mrs. Fredericks also left a million dollars to her nephew, Paul, but his money is all gone. Now Paul wants Honey-Pie's inheritance, and he'll do anything to get it. It's up to The Saddle Club to save Honey-Pie and unmask Paul as the horse-hating rat that he is.

The Eighty-Dollar Champion

The Eighty-Dollar Champion
Author: Elizabeth Letts
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0345521102

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic and inspiring story of a man and his horse, an unlikely duo whose rise to stardom in the sport of show jumping captivated the nation Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately taught Snowman how to fly. Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo. One show at a time, against extraordinary odds and some of the most expensive thoroughbreds alive, the pair climbed to the very top of the sport of show jumping. Their story captured the heart of Cold War–era America—a story of unstoppable hope, inconceivable dreams, and the chance to have it all. They were the longest of all longshots—and their win was the stuff of legend.

Cigar

Cigar
Author: Jay Hovdey
Publisher: Eclipse Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1996
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780939049790

CIGAR: AMERICA'S HORSE is the story of a thorough-bred racehorse who tied Citation's 27 year-old record for consecutive wins. He is the all time leading money earner with winnings approaching S10 million. His owner, trainer and jockey have earned many honors.

The Most Expensive Racehorse in the World: A True Story of the Global Racing Industry

The Most Expensive Racehorse in the World: A True Story of the Global Racing Industry
Author: James Clay
Publisher: Mill City Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781545679951

FUSAICHI PEGASUS WON THE KENTUCKY DERBY RACE IN 2000. THE FIRST FAVORED HORSE TO WIN SINCE 1979. That win set off a riveting tale of a global race to acquire the horse for breeding. A tale that involved the richest horse farms in the world. A race that culminated in the greatest price ever paid for a racehorse. No other racehorse has ever generated such interest or price. This true story details the personal journey of James Clay. An attorney, working on the sunny side of the Big Island of Hawaii in the provincial town of Kailua-Kona, when a phone call about a golf game with a Japanese stranger set the wheels in motion for this engrossing tale. He ended up representing the Japanese owner of "Pegasus". The only non-Japanese representative on a small team of Japanese that travelled on an 18 month journey circling the globe to complete the largest sale in the history of thoroughbred horse racing. A story not so much about horse racing, rather about the racing industry, controlled at the top by the richest horse farms in the world. Sheik Maktoum of Dubai, John Magnier, owner of Coolmore Farm in Ireland, along with Ashford Stud in Kentucky and Coolmore Australia, the largest and richest farm in the world, Robert Clay, owner of Three Chimneys in Kentucky where Seattle Slew stood. Terry Yoshida of Shadai Farm in Japan. Billionaires. All jousting for the privilege of purchasing Pegasus to control breeding for the next 20 years. Come into this rarified world of private jets to California, Kentucky, New York, Paris, Ireland and Japan as the author attended three winners' circles. How he set up a revolutionary auction for the sale of Pegasus, complete with envelopes under the door. How he had to resurrect the final sale after being mislead as to the ownership of Pegasus causing the richest contract to be cancelled. Learn about syndication and how it affects the price in todays racing world and why the first Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup Classic winner, American Pharaoh and Triple Crown winner Justify will never run again.

Starting Gate and Million Dollar Horse

Starting Gate and Million Dollar Horse
Author: Bonnie Bryant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2003
Genre: Horses
ISBN: 9781740518468

Starting GateLIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!Carole, Stevie, Lisa and Veronica are headed to California for a Pony Club rally. As if that weren't enough to look forward to, their good friend Skye Ransom is making a movie and he has invited them to hang out on the set with him. Veronica, of course, is convinced that it's only a matter of time before she ends up costarring. But Skye has to deal with bigger problems than Veronica's dreams of stardom. Rivalry on the set threatens his career, and he may be out of the movie - but The Saddle Club isn't going to let that happen.Million-Dollar HorseMONEY ISN'T EVEYTHING . . . Pine Hollow Stables has a new resident. Honey-Pie is a sweet old mare, but there's nothing special about her - or is there? It turns out that Honey-Pie is a million-dollar horse! She inherited her millions from her owner, Emma Fredericks. Mrs Fredericks also left a quarter of a million to her nephew, Paul, but Paul's money is all gone. Now he wants Honey-Pie's inheritance, and he'll do anything to get it. It's up to The Saddle Club to save Honey-Pie and unmask Paul as the horse-hating rat he is.

MILLION DOLLAR STUD

MILLION DOLLAR STUD
Author: Meg Lacey
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1460371488

Bored with his million-dollar lifestyle, Richard Darcy Kristof accepts a dare: live for one month with strangers and without his name or his fortune. He's up for the challenge. Calling himself Darcy, he gets a job managing a horse farm. But nothing has prepared him for the challenge of the boss's gorgeous daughter—Silver Braybourne. Silver's future is riding on one horse and its ability to win. She's not about to let anything stand in her way, least of all a new manager who's too arrogant, too sexy for his own good…and hers. If she gives in to the temptation of Darcy, she can again focus on her future. Too bad once isn't enough.…

Stud

Stud
Author: Kevin Conley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008-12-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1596917504

Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky to the rich valleys of California. Stud takes us into this strange and seductive world of horse breeding. We meet the world's leading sire, Storm Cat, the Triple Crown winner, Seattle Slew, and a nearly unmanageable colt, Devil Begone, who has found peace and prosperity on the banks of the Rio Grande servicing desert mares like Patty O'Furniture. Cheap stud, top stud, old stud, wild stud, from the Hall of Fame horse to the harem stallion with his feral herd, Stud looks at intimate acts in idyllic settings and the billion-dollar business behind them.

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2013-10-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309264944

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented. The Wild Horse and Burro Program has not used scientifically rigorous methods to estimate the population sizes of horses and burros, to model the effects of management actions on the animals, or to assess the availability and use of forage on rangelands. Evidence suggests that horse populations are growing by 15 to 20 percent each year, a level that is unsustainable for maintaining healthy horse populations as well as healthy ecosystems. Promising fertility-control methods are available to help limit this population growth, however. In addition, science-based methods exist for improving population estimates, predicting the effects of management practices in order to maintain genetically diverse, healthy populations, and estimating the productivity of rangelands. Greater transparency in how science-based methods are used to inform management decisions may help increase public confidence in the Wild Horse and Burro Program.