500 Strangest Racing Stories

Graham Sharpe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2008
Highdown (Verlag)
978-1-905156-54-2 (ISBN)

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A book about the unexpected, the off-beat, the quirky - five hundred strange stories in horseracing's history. It tells 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.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2008
Verlagsort	Newbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 153 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
ISBN-10	1-905156-54-5 / 1905156545
ISBN-13	978-1-905156-54-2 / 9781905156542
Zustand	Neuware