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Sixty Years of Jump Racing: From Arkle to McCoy
Robin Oakley
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Description for Sixty Years of Jump Racing: From Arkle to McCoy
Hardcover. An elegant history of the majestic sport of jump racing, packed with photographs and featuring interviews with the main owners, trainers, jockeys and figureheads of the sport. Num Pages: 288 pages, Packed with colour photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; WSBX; WSNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 253 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1082.
Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. With elegant production and gripping images The History of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport's ups and downs-like the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the near loss of the Grand National, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival and the growth of all-weather racing to meet the bookies' demands for betting shop fodder. Pace and colour is provided by stories of the horses who have been taken to the ... Read more
Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. With elegant production and gripping images The History of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport's ups and downs-like the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the near loss of the Grand National, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival and the growth of all-weather racing to meet the bookies' demands for betting shop fodder. Pace and colour is provided by stories of the horses who have been taken to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472935090
SKU
V9781472935090
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Robin Oakley
Robin Oakley: After being an assistant editor of the Sunday Express and the Daily Mail Robin was Political Editor of The Times (1986-1992) and of the BBC (1992-2000). He then became European Political Editor of the international broadcaster CNN from 2000-2009 and remains a CNN contributor. He has written the Turf column in The Spectator since 1995. ... Read more
Reviews for Sixty Years of Jump Racing: From Arkle to McCoy
A very fine book indeed... a love letter to a sport the two authors adore... Readers of this will be grateful to Oakley and Gillespie. A good job has been done
Racing Post
A labour of love written with Edward Gillespie... it charts National Hunt racing from the mid-1960s when the incomparable steeplechaser Arkle's reign ended to the ... Read more
Racing Post
A labour of love written with Edward Gillespie... it charts National Hunt racing from the mid-1960s when the incomparable steeplechaser Arkle's reign ended to the ... Read more