Racing Post's 500 Strangest Racing Stories

Graham Sharpe

ISBN 10: 1905156340 / ISBN 13: 9781905156344

Published by Highdown, 2007

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Racing Post's 500 Strangest Racing Stories
• Publisher: Highdown
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905156340
• ISBN 13: 9781905156344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 399.2 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.