Inside Track: Insider's Guide to Horse Racing - Softcover

Brothers, Donna Barton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581503431 ISBN 13: 9781581503432

Publisher: Eclipse Press, 2014

Synopsis

This essential handbook and guide to thoroughbred racing contains basic information about racing and some additional fun facts and details for those who want to delve further into the subject. Well-known national racing commentator and former jockey, Donna Barton Brothers, provides an insider's guide to a day at the races with tips on what to wear, how to bet, how to watch a race, and where to see the best racing. Brothers' unique perspective is sure to make the racetrack experience enjoyable, whether it be at the Kentucky Derby or at your local track. Even if you don't need a guide, get it for your friends who are new to horse racing--so that you can concentrate on betting and winning, while "Inside Track" walks them through the basics.

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About the Author

Donna Barton Brothers has been a professional jockey, horse racing analyst, and on-air commentator. She rode professionally from 1987 to 1998 and retired as the second-leading female jockey in the nation by money earned. She has covered horse racing for the Television Games Network (TVG), ESPN, and in 2000 began working for NBC Sports as their on-track reporter and racing analyst on their thoroughbred horse racing shows. She has since covered the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, and Breeders’ Cup among many other thoroughbred horse racing events and races and for NBC Sports and NBCSN. She’s also covered the Hambletonian Stakes, the Rolex Three Day Event, the World Equestrian Games, the AQHA World Championship Show, and Professional Bull Riding (PBR), among other events, for NBC Sports. In 2011 she first published Inside Track: Insider’s Guide to Horse Racing. Written with the knowledge that there’s a huge learning curve for newcomers to horse racing and there were no books out there acting as a beginner’s guide to the sport. The first printing of Inside Track sold out and in 2014 a freshly revised and updated Second Edition of Inside Track: Insider’s Guide to Horse Racing was put into production.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eclipse Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581503431
• ISBN 13: 9781581503432
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Duke Jackie