Valley of the Racehorse

A Year in the Life of Lambourn

Robin Oakley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2001 | New edition
Headline Book Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7472-6306-7 (ISBN)

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The village of Lambourn is rivalled only by Newmarket as the home of racing, with over 4000 race horses based there. This evocative account of a year in the life of the village reveals the way the racing world works, using interviews with jockeys, trainers, stable lads and the local publican.

Lambourn is the home of racing, rivalled only by Newmarket, with over 1500 racehorses bassed there. In Robin Oakley's evocative account of a year in the life of this village, he reveals the way the racing world works. Talking to trainers, jockeys, stable lads and even the local pub landlord, he presents the great characters that make racing what it is - people like Jenny Pitman, Charlie Brooks, Jamie Osborne as well as those almost unknown beyond the village such as Eddie Fisher who prepares the training grounds. Oakley shows how close to reality the novels of Jilly Cooper and Dick Francis really are.

Robin Oakley was political editor of The Times from 1986 and was a political editor of the BBC. In 1995 he began a weekly column on his greatest love, racing, for the Spectator. He is married and has two children.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.6.2001
Zusatzinfo	16 b&w photos
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	195 x 131 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände
ISBN-10	0-7472-6306-X / 074726306X
ISBN-13	978-0-7472-6306-7 / 9780747263067
Zustand	Neuware