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From the Desert to the Derby
This book covers the conflict between Skeikh Mohammed Rushed al Maktoum and the old-line Kentucky racing establishment. The book also brings to life some of the world's most exquisite Thoroughbred racing facilities in the world, and a battle that involves sports' such fertile ground; money, power, ego, and tradition.
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The Suffragette Derby
On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with them a quartet of combustible elements: a fanatical, publicity-hungry suffragette; a scapegoat for the Titanic disaster and the pillar of the Establishment who bore him a personal grudge; a pair of feuding jockeys at odds over money and glory; and, finally, at the heart of the action, two thoroughbred horses - one a vicious savage and one the consummate equine athlete. Taken together, this was a recipe for the most notorious horse race in British history. One hundred years on, this par...
The Derby
Tells the history of the world's greatest flat race - the horses, the jockeys, the day itself. Here is the colour and pageantry of the most important day in the horse-racing calendar.
Rough Magic
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'Such an addictive and likeable book...One of this year's best memoirs' The Telegraph 'Rough Magic is transporting, beguiling and terrifically entertaining' Daily Mail The Mongol Derby is the world's toughest horse race. A feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan, competitors ride 25 horses across a distance of 1000km. Many riders don't make it to the finish line. In 2013, Lara Prior-Palmer - nineteen, underprepared but seeking the great unknown - decided to enter the race. Driven by her own restlessness, stubbornness, and a lifelong love of horses, she raced for seven days through extreme heat and terri...
Never Say Die
A history of the American horse that won Britain’s greatest race and changed the Thoroughbred racing world. A quarter of a million people braved miserable conditions at Epsom Downs on June 2, 1954, to see the 175th running of the prestigious Derby Stakes. Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Winston Churchill were in attendance, along with thousands of Britons who were all convinced of the unfailing superiority of English bloodstock and eager to see a British colt take the victory. They were shocked when a Kentucky-born chestnut named Never Say Die galloped to a two-length triumph at odds of 33–1, winning Britain’s greatest race and beginning an important shift in the world of Thoroughbred racin...
The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses
Originally published in 1850, this wonderfully illustrated work is a fantastic edition to the bookshelf of any horse racing enthusiast. It contains a wealth of knowledge on the history of the great races of yesteryear, such as the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes, and includes profiles of the great horses that won them. It details the careers of Galata, Spaniel, Oxygen, and many other winners, along with tales of their victories and the odds at which they ran. To this republication we have added a specially commissioned introduction on the history of horses to sports and utility.
