📚 Horse Racing

The turf and the track: breeding and racing, the book, and the literature of the photo finish.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject horse racing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Markhams maister-peece	Gervase Markham	1615	43
	Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand	2001	38
	Código penal de chile	Chile	1874	24
	The sport of Queens	Dick Francis	1957	24
	Right Royal	John Masefield	1920	23
	Portraits of celebrated racehorses of the past and present centuries	Thomas Henry Taunton	1887	17
	Illustrated Horsewatching	Desmond Morris	1988	14
	Picking winners	Andrew Beyer	1975	7
	The winning horseplayer	Andrew Beyer	1983	7
	Betting on horse racing for dummies	Richard Eng	2005	6
	Horse Racing	Ivor Herbert	1980	5
	Braddock's complete guide to horse-race selection and betting	Peter Braddock	1983	5
	The Pocket Venus	Henry Blyth	1966	4
	Betting thoroughbreds	Steven Davidowitz	1977	4
	Winning at the Track	David L. Christopher	1985	4
	Ruffian	Jane Schwartz	1991	4
	Complete guide to thoroughbred racing	Tom Ainslie	1968	3
	Pro rated longshots	Dan Geer	1975	3
	The Best of Thoroughbred Handicapping	James Quinn	1984	3
	Outsider	Sara Craven	1987	3
	Thoroughbred cycles	Mark Cramer	1990	3
	The complete encyclopedia of horse racing	Bill Mooney	2006	3
	Handicapping by example	William L. Quirin	1924	2
	Thoroughbred Horse Racing	Ray Taulbot	1950	2
	Scientific Handicapping	Ira S. Cohen	1963	2
	Al Illich's How to Pick Winners	Albert George Illich	1971	2
	Class in thoroughbred racing	Chuck Badone	1979	2
	Thoroughbred Handicapping	William L. Quirin	1984	2
	Money secrets at the racetrack	Barry Meadow	1988	2
	The Winning Look	Nick Mordin	1994	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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