500 Strangest Racing Stories
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-905156-54-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a book about the unexpected, the off-beat, the quirky - five hundred of the strangest stories in horseracing's history. If you go racing or watch racing for any length of time, you soon realise that it is suffused with an aura on unreality and other worldliness. Odd moments abound, the surreal is almost commonplace.In "500 Strangest Racing Stories" read about how a jockey lost a race when he insisted on riding in a top hat, what happened when a trainer fitted his short-sighted runner with spectacles, and why a racehorse was sent to jail.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Newbury
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Raceform Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 153 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-905156-54-2 (9781905156542)
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Person
Graham Sharpe has spent 30 years working in the worlds of bookmaking and racing. He is William Hill's Media Relations Director, and an award-winning journalist and PR man who has studied the history of both the Sport of Kings and gambling, and written widely on the subjects.