OF HORSES AND HEROES

OF HORSES AND HEROES Brough Scott. Racing Post Publishing, Newbury.2009 Second Impression ISBN 9781905156573 256pp Illustrated Hardback. Signed by Author. This mint unread copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is lightly sunned to the leading edge but still in fine condition. This copy was clearly given by the author on the occasion of the Racing Post Juvenile Night on 3 March 2009 and is signed on thye half title 'Congratulations Brough Scott' with no other dedication. Brough Scott has been inspired by horses. As a professional jockey he rode them in the Grand National and at Cheltenham. As a writer and broadcaster, he has followed the racing game as far afield as Australia, Argentina, Hong Kong and Japan but for him it has always been the horses that have been at the heart of it all. In this collection of his writings over the last 40 years, he puts them centre stage. No one has ever written about the racehorse the way he does. Whether actually in the saddle on Red Rum, in the stable with Shergar, at the fences with Denman, or inflight with Motivator, he gives us a unique understanding of the equine athlete and those around it. He takes us up the gallops at Newmarket, on to the Moors at Middleham, into the Forest of Chantilly and across the Curragh Plain. He stands in the foaling box and at the winning post. He goes where only the gallopers go. No one who likes horses or racing should miss it. Ref R4.…