No Hour of Life is Lost

Extensively illustrated, No Hour of Life is Lost casts a fresh, intriguing and highly engaging light on Winston Churchill. No previous biography has given due attention to the importance of horses in his life.

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'No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.' Winston Churchill, My Early Life From childhood ponies to the racehorses who brightened his old age, Winston Churchill loved horses with a passion. He played polo until well into his fifties and rode to hounds in his seventies; he competed in Army point-to-points at Sandhurst; when serving in the cavalry he took part in the charge at Omdurman in 1898; and his enthusiasm for racing and breeding, according to his daughter Mary Soames, 'gave him enormous pleasure and interest in his declining years'. But this story of Churchill and horses is more than just a fascinating angle on the great statesman's personality over nearly a century of his life. It is a chronicle of the changing relationship between horses and human society.