Horse Racing's Strangest Tales
Published on 16. February 2017
256 pages
978-1-911042-83-9 (ISBN)
Description
Extraordinary but true stories from over 150 years of racing.
This hilarious, sideways look at horse racing vividly recounts many of the strangest moments and oddest incidents from over 150 years of the sport's history.
Andrew Ward recalls the time when spectators mounted two fallen horses and rode them to second and third places; the race which had to be re-run because the judge wasn't in his box at the finish; the ultrasonic binoculars that allegedly stunned a horse and unseated a jockey at Ascot, and many more.
A totally original, offbeat collection of extraordinary but true stories, Horse-Racing's Strangest Races will be a delight to all lovers of the turf.
Word count: 60,000
This hilarious, sideways look at horse racing vividly recounts many of the strangest moments and oddest incidents from over 150 years of the sport's history.
Andrew Ward recalls the time when spectators mounted two fallen horses and rode them to second and third places; the race which had to be re-run because the judge wasn't in his box at the finish; the ultrasonic binoculars that allegedly stunned a horse and unseated a jockey at Ascot, and many more.
A totally original, offbeat collection of extraordinary but true stories, Horse-Racing's Strangest Races will be a delight to all lovers of the turf.
Word count: 60,000
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,95 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911042-83-9 (9781911042839)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Person
Andrew Ward
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Woman Against Man (1805)
- Outsiders for the St Leger (1822)
- The Cocked-Hat Stakes (1824)
- A Race Against the Clock (1831)
- A Favourite Fails on the Flat (1835)
- Very Thick Fog (1841)
- The Adventure of Running Rein (1844)
- Man Against Horse Over Hurdles (1849)
- The Worst-Ever Day's Racing (1849)
- The Last of the Great Matches (1851)
- The United Kingdom Trainers' Stakes (1854)
- A Quadruple Dead Heat (1855)
- A Unique Format (1858)
- A Race for Stayers (1862)
- A New Race (1862)
- An Empty Box (1864)
- A Savage Brute (1866)
- Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding for the Name . (1866)
- A Starter's Nightmare (1871)
- A One-Horse Race (1875)
- The Bard Will Walk It (1886)
- A Deuce of a Race (1888)
- Foston Foggydom (1889)
- 'A Singularly Sensational Affair' (1892)
- The Trodmore Races (1898)
- A National Needing a Spare Neck (1901)
- A Marine Achievement (1903)
- Great Metropolitan Mistakes (1903)
- How Far Did You Say? (1903)
- One Objection After Another (1903)
- Transport Difficulties (1905)
- The Coup of the Missing Hurdle (1905)
- An Italian Love Story (1908)
- Glenside's Year (1911)
- Tinto vs Myriad (1912)
- Emily Davison and a Disqualification (1913)
- 'Horse Stopped By Armed Man' (1913)
- A War National at Gatwick (1917)
- The Worst-Ever Sporting Disaster (1918)
- A Triple Dead Heat (1923)
- England's Best Against America's Best (1923)
- A Grand National for Allison and Good (1927)
- Forty-Two Runners and One Clear Round (1928)
- Engine-Power Against Horsepower (1933)
- A Record for a 7-Furlong Course (1938)
- One From the Back (1939)
- The Golden Apple (1939)
- Spectators As Jockeys (1939)
- Going Solo In the Kiplingcotes Derby (1947)
- Divided High Stakes (1949)
- A Waiting Race (1949)
- The Fernie-Chase Chase (1953)
- Scotland Yard Investigates (1953)
- A Race For Seven Novices (1954)
- A Human Error? (1955)
- A Storm Over Ascot (1955)
- Devon Loch at Aintree (1956)
- An Announcement to Follow (1958)
- Trouble on the Track (1958)
- Seven Fall In the Derby (1962)
- Pioneering a New Course (1964)
- A Million to One (1965)
- 'Man with Gun Holds Up Race' (1966)
- Nine Out of Ten Disqualified (1966)
- A Shot Horse (1966)
- No Cow, No Jockeys (1966)
- Thirty-Six Horses Die After Race (1966)
- Foinavon's National (1967)
- No Finishers In a Flat Race (1969)
- Racecourse Dogs (1969)
- An Attack on the TiercÉ (1973)
- An Outside Chance (1975)
- My Kentucky Derby (1976)
- The Great American Horse Race (1976)
- Battling Jockeys (1978)
- Another Hoax (1978)
- Not Before Time (1979)
- Three Races In One (1979)
- Rerun Race at Ripon (1980)
- Aldaniti at Aintree (1981)
- A Helicopter Treble (1981)
- A Ballot For Who Races (1981)
- A Tale of Two Greys (1982)
- A Win For a Riderless Horse (1983)
- A National Hunt World Championship (1984)
- A Photo-Finish . Between Foot and Ground (1984)
- Gold Snow (1987)
- An Announcer's Mistake (1987)
- Trouble at 1 O'Clock (1987)
- Victory . a Week Later (1988)
- Ultrasonic Sound? (1988)
- A Sudden Fall (1989)
- Famous Last Words (1990)
- The Grand National That Never Was (1993)
- Seven Out of Seven (1996)
- When the Grand National Was Run on a Monday (1997)
- Ben Johnson, Two Horses and a Stock Car (1998)
- A Racehorse In the Doghouse (2004)
- Man Beats Horse (2004)
- Seagulls In the Home Straight (2005)
- What's In a Name? (2010)
- Horses Electrocuted In the Paddock (2011)
- Remounting Not Permitted (2011)
- A Wild Horse Race (2013)
- Over 99 Lengths Behind Second Place (2013)
- Horse vs Bicycle (2014)
- The Pantomime Horse Derby (2014)
- Selected Bibliography
