About this title: This is a behind the scenes look at the business and pleasure of horse racing. Horse racing may be known as "the sport of kings," but it's big fun for everyone and even bigger business. A perfect mixture of beauty and excitement, action and refinement, it's a booming business that peaks annually when the Kentucky Derby turns Churchill Downs into ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780471445579ISBN:0471445576
Description: As New in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. Binding is tight. 222pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780471445579ISBN:0471445576
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 9.1 x 6.32 x 0.88. Nice Tight Clean copy! 240 pages. A behind-the-scenes look at the business and pleasure of horse racing. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780471445579ISBN:0471445576
Description: B/W Photos, Tables. Fine/Fine- W/Dust Jacket 225pgs(Index) Clean, tight & bright. No ink names, tears, chips, foxing etc. Price unclipped. ISBN 0471445576. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NJ
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780471445579ISBN:0471445576
Description: Photographs & Charts. Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 225 pgs. Bert Randolph Sugar is one of the most recognizable personalities in sports, with his trademark fedora and cigar, he is a fixture at race tracks and boxing matches. A former advertising executive at McCann-Erickson and J. Walter Thompson, Sugar left the world of advertising after a brawl with a fellow ad exec landed him in the pages of the NY Times and Advertising Age. Sugar became a sportswriter, and a damn good ... read more
Description: Good. 0471445576 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: 2003-03-28
ISBN-13:9780471445579ISBN:0471445576
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, New Jersey
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780471445579ISBN:0471445576
Description: Illustrated. Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition in mint condition. A fascinating look at the world of horse racing. From the tracks and owners to the trainers, jockeys and bettors, this book goes behind the scenes to look at the inner workings of this $100 billion industry. Foreword by Bud Schulberg. Illustrated with b&w photos and charts. 222 pages including index, glossary, and appendix. read more
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. In praise of Horse Sense "Bert Sugar wears his hat and waves his cigar and looks like some old-time fight manager. But this is far from being true. Bert Sugar is a brilliant man. And pride would not allow him to do a book that doesn't reflect this much work and care for English: 'Robinson Crusoe without a boat. ' The reader gets a big break ... read more
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