Too Much Egg

Too Much Egg is the story of eighteen months in the life of Jamie Osborne, a brilliant National Hunt jockey and one of the finest horsemen in the British Isles. It charts one of the most astonishing episodes in British sport, which would result in one of the most dramatic criminal investigations of modern times.

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"Too Much Egg is the story of eighteen months in the life of Jamie Osborne, a brilliant National Hunt jockey and one of the finest horsemen in the British Isles. When the season started in 1998, he was at his peak. He had ridden 131 winners the previous year and was on course to be Champion Jockey with his best ever start to the season. Then, in November, he fell at Cheltenham and smashed his wrist so badly he was told his racing days were over. Six weeks later, on his return from a friend's funeral in Dublin, Osborne was arrested in a dawn raid, taken to Charing Cross Police Station, thrown in a cell and told by the Organised Crime Group that they wanted him for the fixing of races and the doping of horses. The following morning, the Jockey Club stripped him of his licence. Almost overnight, Osborne had become a pariah in the world he had dominated for years. Then, out of the blue, an ex-police officer arranged a secret meeting with Jamie in the kitchen of the trainer Kim Bailey. 'I can make all this go away,' he said, ' but at a price.'
It was the start of one of the most astonishing episodes in British sport, which would expose Jamie Osborne to serious personal danger, humiliate the Jockey Club and result in one of the most dramatic criminal investigations of modern times. Osborne's startling and incriminating revelations in this book will set the racing world alight."