Sir Henry is very unhappy with Brough Scott and biography

[moehat]

But a biography has to be more than an account of the horses he’s trained over the years, and, to understand his re emergence as a top trainer the book must surely explain what happened prior to that. And also how he came to be a top trainer in the first place [which had a lot to do with his first marriage I believe]. I’m sure the accounts of how pleasant he is are true but, given that we’ve always found people in racing to be very approachable and often chat with people when we go racing, I think Sir Henry is one trainer that I would hold back from trying to talk to [and this is prior to his illness]. I find his way of answering a question with a question very unnerving. Must also point out that I was as chuffed as everyone else to see him train such a great horse as Frankel. However, until I’ve actually read the book this is all conjecture anyway.

[Crepello1957]

I obviously don’t know the initial agreement between Scott & Cecil, but I would think it naive to expect that a book about you would omit your wrong doings & faults. It is dependent on how Scott has written it & I like others haven’t read it.
Complete warts & all biographies are best written after a person has been dead a good number of years.

I wonder if this will effect sales? I imagine some people would want read it more now.

[betlarge]

I obviously don’t know the initial agreement between Scott & Cecil, but I would think it naive to expect that a book about you would omit your wrong doings & faults. It is dependent on how Scott has written it & I like others haven’t read it.

Nobody is privy to the agreement so all is guesswork to be honest!

Mike

[Jollyp]

You have to take the good with the bad,one can’t expect to have a book written about them with just all the nice things said. Otherwise it would end up like the Lester Piggott Biography written by Dick (Mary?)Francis, where Dick fawned all over Lester like a person speaking about their hero.

[Himself]

For a man, who by his own admission, didn’t really have much interest in horse racing or the pretensions of becoming a racehorse trainer, he has done remarkably well indeed. His father – in – law’s retirement saw all that change.

The point, which seems lost on some people, is not whether Brough Scott wrote a warts and all account of Sir Henry’s life, but whether or not he betrayed Sir Henry’s trust and renaged on any agreement they may have had over the intended contents of the book. That’s the point. If Scott has broken any promise he gave to Sir Henry Cecil, then shame on him, I say.

Btw TAPK, just for the record, OLD boy – Frankel was his latest ( who can tell if it will be his last ) classic winner.

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[Crepello1957]

Yes, if they made an agreement that information would be omitted & then Scott wrote it, that is totally wrong. I do wonder if the agreement was a bit woolly & not in writing & as Scott researched he got a bit carried away, or the publisher put pressure on him for "juicy bits" they thought would help with sales or encourage a newspaper serialisation.

[pilgarlic]

Hope Brough hasn`t brought up the alleged penchant for eating tinned fruit in bed.

[Crepello1957]

Not quite the "Juicy Bits" Pilgarlic.
Remember reading about the fruit in Pacemaker or similar publication.

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