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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Equestrian & animal sports > Greyhound racing
Teenagers, Brooke Anne and James, are strong competitors who train dogs to win in North American dog-sled races. Besides racing, great challenges come from a prize lead-dog gone deaf, a grizzly bear on attack, a crash through Yukon River ice, and a charging moose. Experiences are either told by Brooke Anne or by James. Their adventures bring danger, outstanding dogs, tests of culture, and a glimpse of lives evolving.
The story of how I first got introduced to the Greyhound Racing World, as the Track Announcer at the Woodlands Racetrack in Kansas City, KS, back when the track first opened in 1989. This book recalls my many memories and experiences at that track and the road that ultimately led me to become the on-air host for the popular Internet Racing show known as Bigjackpotbetting.com, that is currently sweeping the nation and the world bringing live Greyhound Racing Action directly into the homes of the racing fans.
This book chronicles the entire history of the "Hollywood World Greyhound Racing Classic," the foremost greyhound sprint race in the world. From its very first running in 1975 right up to and including the 2013 event, the "World Classic" is documented year by year. Rare photos, racepages, charts and newspaper accounts bring the history of this important event to life.
A pictorial history of The American Greyhound Derby from the years 1949 to 2012 detailing the most prestigious greyhound race in the United States.
Today, sports' betting is a big industry for the bookmakers and race organisers. Of all the people who benefit from sports racing the "punters" (or in this case, you), are the last on the list of people who consistently gain.. In fact the greyhounds probably gain more from these races than most punters. Why is that? Well, there are many reasons but most of them centre on these two things: Lack of a proven system and Greed. This book closely examine these two points, and offers techniques and systems for achieving consistant wins.
Picking up where the best-selling IDITAROD CLASSICS left off, MORE
IDITAROD CLASSICS introduces readers to more of the men and women
who brave the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from
Anchorage to Nome. And do they ever have stories to tell In their
own words, champions and lesser knowns share their very best
stories--how they came to love the race, train their dogs and
themselves, and battle all manner of winter hardships challenging
the elements in what some have called the most extreme
long-distance competition in the world.
In 1958, no one in the Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog
Race knew the Athabascan Indian from Huslia who limped to the
starting line in Anchorage. But when he finished with the winning
time, George Attla opened a new chapter in the history of sprint
mushing. For decades, Attla, the "Huslia Hustler," reined as
Alaska's most winning sprint champion, having overcome crippling TB
as a child.
At forty-one, husband and father Brian Patrick O'Donoghue feels his youth slipping away... It had been since six years since the newspaper reporter mushed to a last-place finish in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Yearning to challenge himself anew, he enters the Yukon Quest--a far more brutal, 1,000-mile run through mountainous wilds along the Yukon River between Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and Fairbanks, Alaska. With wry humor and diminishing expectations, O'Donoghue shares the trail with Khan, Hobbes, Scrimshaw, Cyclone, and ten other excitable Alaska huskies, plus a diverse collection of rival racers and an assortment of "Bush rats" met on his way to the finish line. The mushers' strategies, dreams, and disappointments; the antics of their furry athletes; the drama of the race; and the unworldly winter wilderness venue add texture to this amazing personal story of a man and his dogs.
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