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I am aware there was a thread on here during the summer about good racing books.
I bought and have read many of them.
My favourite was probably the Lord Derby book on Ouija Bord or to Win Just Once about Guy Lewis, although I also enjoyed Days like These by Jamie Reid.
I am looking for recommendations on new books to read as I have read the majority flagged in the previous thread.
Andy
I enjoyed "On The Racing Road", by Nicholas Godfrey
I have it on my list of books to read,anything on Nad Al Sheba/Japan/Hong Kong………Thanks in Advance.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Long-Shot-S … 547&sr=8-1
Not by a long shot by T Thornton
Best racing book ive read in years… Its about a season at Suffolk Downs near Boston. Doesnt shy away from controversy as well as being very entertaining.
Cannot recommend it highly enough
On The Racing Road has chapters on racing in:
Thailand; Vietnam; Japan; South Korea; China; Mexico; USA; Puerto Rico; Trinidad; Peru; Venezuela; Brazil; Uruguay; Argentina; New Zealand; Australia; India; Canada; Dominican Republic; Singapore; and Philippines.
It’s well written and entertaining, if in a slightly anorak-ish way.
If "racing anorak" describes the type of person you find on this board, I wonder what such people are called elsewhere? Racing ponchos in South America, possibly?!
If "racing anorak" describes the type of person you find on this board, I wonder what such people are called elsewhere? Racing ponchos in South America, possibly?!
"Racing black leather jacket" in my house.
gc
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Thanks for those recommendations I’ll get onto Amazon and order them.
Halfway through Mark Johnstons book at the moment, its ok.
On The Racing Road has chapters on racing in:
Thailand; Vietnam; Japan; South Korea; China; Mexico; USA; Puerto Rico; Trinidad; Peru; Venezuela; Brazil; Uruguay; Argentina; New Zealand; Australia; India; Canada; Dominican Republic; Singapore; and Philippines.
It’s well written and entertaining, if in a slightly anorak-ish way.
If "racing anorak" describes the type of person you find on this board, I wonder what such people are called elsewhere? Racing ponchos in South America, possibly?!
Love to read what it says about Thailand as I live here……..worst racing I have ever been to in my life……….wouldn’t win a seller at Hamilton most of them, over trained and over raced, I think they all trained Thai Boxers before turning to horses.
On The Racing Road has chapters on racing in:
Thailand; Vietnam; Japan; South Korea; China; Mexico; USA; Puerto Rico; Trinidad; Peru; Venezuela; Brazil; Uruguay; Argentina; New Zealand; Australia; India; Canada; Dominican Republic; Singapore; and Philippines.
It’s well written and entertaining, if in a slightly anorak-ish way.
If "racing anorak" describes the type of person you find on this board, I wonder what such people are called elsewhere? Racing ponchos in South America, possibly?!
I’d never heard of the book until I found and bought it yesterday.
His description of my adopted hometown being "significantly less scuzzy than Newmarket" is spot-on and was the reason why i sold up in Newmarket and purchased in Saratoga but what was interesting in that chapter he said that he visited Saratoga (it was during Whitney weekend 2005) with an amount of trepidation-as did I when i first went there in 2001-presumably because it’s somewhere that despite holding 15 Grade 1 races in the 6 week meet that few Euopean racefans have visited or know much about.
If Breeders’ Cup was ever held there (too difficult because of uncertain weather and a large number of other logistical problems) it would be the catalyst for more foreign visitors coming during the main racing season.
You probably all have it anyway, but Michael Tanner’s "The Champion Hurdle – from Blaris to Istabraq" is a fantastic read.
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