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Even Belinda, who returns this season to participate in a management exchange program, gets a good jump-scare from a chance encounter with one of the locale’s four-legged denizens.

Racing is a four-legged stool, with one of the legs being Kentucky; another New York; tracks that hold boutique meets such as Keeneland in Kentucky, Oaklawn in Arkansas and the winter meets at Gulfstream and Tampa Bay in Florida; and finally there is California.

This month’s titles range from a bittersweet comedy set in the Italian countryside to an expedition in bitterly cold temperatures, as well as from a sci-fi novel set inside a murder mystery to a memoir about the most motley collection of four-legged family members you’ll ever encounter.

"People could come away and put all their troubles behind them, focus on the dog training and go away three weeks later with a four-legged friend almost ready to have the L-plates removed," says Graham.

According to the fossil record, cetaceans -- whales, dolphins and their relatives -- evolved from four-legged land mammals that returned to the oceans beginning some 50 million years ago.