The Racing Post Guide to Betting
The Racing Post Guide to Betting

Author: Tom Park

Publisher: Racing Post

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781839500107

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The world of sports betting has evolved and the Racing Post has evolved with it. The variety of markets available to the bettor has grown exponentially. This is a thrilling time but potentially a confusing one as well. In The Racing Post Guide to Betting, experts on horse racing, as well as the most prominent sports, share their expertise and advice, clearing a path to more betting success. In a clear, precise and engaging format this unique guide will prove essential to all those keen on a bet, even the most hardened, set-in-their-ways punter.

Fifty Shades of Hay
Fifty Shades of Hay

Author: David Ashforth

Publisher: Racing Post

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910497715

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You might feel sure that a horse is not a Flamingo, a Polar Bear, a Tomato, a Teapot, a pair of Bootlaces, a Taxidermist, a Rat Catcher, or a Flea, but you'd be wrong. Racehorse owners often give their horses bizarre names that would seem to make success impossible. Luckily, thoroughbreds are able to defy such handicaps. A Spaniel has won the Derby (1831), a Crow the St Leger (1976), a Butterfly the Oaks (1860) and, difficult to imagine, Oscar Wilde the Welsh National (1958). It's bonkers. Bonkers won at Southwell in 2002. Over the centuries there have been hundreds of thousands of different names bestowed or inflicted on racehorses, and in Fifty Shades Of Hay, David Ashforth has picked out a selection to baffle, surprise, and amuse in equal measure.

A Year in the Frame
A Year in the Frame

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Publisher: Racing Post

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910497784

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A Year in the Frame is the fourth collection of award-winning photographer Edward Whitaker's best photographs. The photographs encapsulate the Racing year and show the full scope of Edward's work, from sporting action at the main racecourses around the globe--Cheltenham, Royal Ascot, Newmarket, Goodwood, Aintree, Belmont, Santa Anita, Churchill Downs, and Longchamps--to candid and intimate portraits of some of the leading lights of the sport, as well as racegoers in all their finery.

Doped
Doped

Author: Jamie Reid

Publisher: Racing Post

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781909471511

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'Doped' is the gripping true-story racing thriller set in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s. Combining a potent mix of horse racing, drugs, sex, class, crime, gambling and the monarchy, it tells the true story of one of the biggest doping scandals in British racing history. In March 1962 an audacious attempt to nobble one of the royal horses alerted police to a well organised band of racecourse criminals, backed by murderous London gangsters. The subsequent Flying Squad pursuit of the gang brought the quaintly deferential world of racing into sharp conflict with the harsher realities of the 'You've never had it so good' era. This also coincided with the birth of the annual Dick Francis novel. The cast of characters is headed by William Roper, a debonair ex RAF Sergeant turned oddsmaker. His team included an ex jockey, numerous underpaid stable lads, an upper class gambling addict and a violent professional gangster who went on to face charges with the Kray twins in 1969. But the most fascinating member of Roper's firm was a beautiful and selfpossessed young Swiss woman called Micheline Lugeon who became the bookmaker's lover.

Horse Racing Manual
Horse Racing Manual

Author: Tom Peacock

Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781785211690

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The Horse Racing Manual guides the reader through a first day at the races, explaining all the elements and considerations, from what to wear to placing a bet. Unlike other books on the market, it takes the reader further and goes ‘behind the scenes,’ providing explanations into the physiology of the horse and where it comes from, the processes and people involved in leading it to become a racehorse, the breeders, farriers, owners, trainers, jockeys and more.

Enemy Number One
Enemy Number One

Author: Patrick Veitch

Publisher: Racing Post

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781905156702

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The sensational inside story of how the UK's most feared professional punter overcame adversity to take the bookmakers for more than £10 million in an eight-year period. This book offers a brutal, often controversial, but utterly fascinating insight into Patrick Veitch's life of punting. Told in Veitch's own candid ice-cool style, with an intelligent wit throughout, this is quite simply a compelling read.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Horse Racing
The Complete Encyclopedia of Horse Racing

Author: Bill Mooney

Publisher: Carlton Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780978215

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An authoritative and comprehensive illustrated work of reference, which tells the story of the "sport of kings" from its earliest inception to the present day.