Many b/w and colour illustrations, appendices, notes on sources, index.

Documents the business from the early era in Tallahassee in the 1800s to its unprecedented growth in Marion County, where limestone deposits in the rolling green countryside provide the perfect nutrients for healthy bones and cartilage in livestock. Interviews with first- and second-generation horse people, including Fred Hooper, winner of more breeder's awards and racing honors than anyone in the United States, and Frank David ("Buddy") Yates, Needles' gallop boy in the fifties and the son of Needles' trainer, Roy Yates. Among more than a hundred photographs in the book are shots of the famous captive flamingoes at Hialeah, Rough 'n Tumble's swimming pool at Ocala Stud, Needles exhibiting his characteristic displeasure during morning exercise, Carryback, the second Florida thoroughbred to win the Kentucky Derby, and Affirmed, the first to win the Triple Crown. Appendixes provide information on tracks, earnings, winners, breeder awards, and more.

History of public transportation in Paris, in the context of the city's urban and social development from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth.

Step-by-step instruction in training the western performance horse.

Memoir of a zoo director's experiences with tigers, rhinos, mountain gorillas, a jaguar on a plane, and David Letterman.

Includes charts, pedigrees.

John Hislop was a champion British amateur jockey and racing writer; he bred Brigadier Gerard, widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of the 20th century, who won 17 of 18 races including the 2000 Guineas and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes

Translated by Christina Belton.

Covers a range of alternative therapies for horses, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, shiatsu, leeches, cell therapy, and others. With sections on specific ailments.