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Beckhampton: The Men and Horses of a Great Racing Stable - Hardcover

Mathieu, Paul

 
9781910498293: Beckhampton: The Men and Horses of a Great Racing Stable
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1910498297 ISBN 13: 9781910498293
Verlag: Raceform Ltd, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Beckhampton celebrates the kaleidoscope of men, money and horses linked to one of Britain's oldest and greatest racing stables: Beckhampton, on the Wiltshire downs. The story reveals how an isolated coaching inn morphed into a top training yard, home to some 40 Classic winners. The cast of characters roam from the magistrate who sat in judgement on his own prosecution for disorderly behaviour, to the undergraduate who arrived at university with a string of horses and 2,000 bottles of port; from the jockey who was commandeered by Lord Palmerston to ride to a Channel port to collect a peace treaty, to the champion wrestler who became a gin baron and the owner of Classic-winning racehorses. Add Royalty and household names like Sir Gordon Richards, the 26-times champion jockey, and you have a brilliantly-researched book to delight anyone with an interest in the Sport of Kings.

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Paul Mathieu has visited every racecourse in Britain and was one of the early-morning team who supplied the commentary for 'Wogan's Winner' on Radio Two. His other racing book's are The Masters of Manton and The Druid's Lodge Confederacy.

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Verlag
Raceform Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1910498297
ISBN 13 
9781910498293
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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