Recommended racing themed book

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I'm off to the flying legends airshow this afternoon for the weekend & want to pick up maybe an autobiography to read but have no idea which to buy,

Bearing in mind our local WH Smiths is fairly small but does have a good racing section,

Any thoughts?

I've got till around 2pm to choose :rolleyes:
 
Colin Phillips said:
Don't buy Julian Wilson's auotbiography; unless you want to know who was prepared to park their white stick and jump into bed with him!:blink:
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:lol:

Actually I've got the seabiscuit book but have never got around to reading it, saw the film & then reading the book lost its shine :rolleyes:
 
The book of Seabiscuit is much better than the film. One of the few books I've read twice and will read it again sometime.
 
The trip to smiths was a complete waste of time :rolleyes:

I found one copy of the moscow flyer book, but it looked like it had been thrown around the shop 20 times :blink:

The rest of the shelf was taken up by formbooks & some book about betting in which there must have been thirty copies of it :mad:

So I gave up & came out with nothing!
 
Three handy sites to find more racing books:

www.racingbookshop.com (includes general racing memorabilia, and offers you a chance to sell as well as buy)

www.racing-index.com/services.html (monster reference site - see under Horse Racing Information for links to memorabilia, which includes books)

www.directoryoftheturf.com (gives lists of bookshops specialising in racing - I see it's got Classic Racing Books of Stoke-on-Trent listed, from whom I bought quite a few when the owner used to have a stand at Uttoxeter)

All the above can locate new and secondhand books for you, and/or give locations of bookshops nearest to you. If there's a particular racing book you really want and it's out of print, most of those booksellers listed in Directory of the Turf can try to source it for you.
 
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can back the mickfitz, northern dancer and monarchos one. the latter "horse of a different colour" is a really good book, read it at least twice so far. istabraq goes without saying too, Micheal Tanner can certainly tell a story well.
 
Just finishing Walliam nack's Secretariat: the making of a champion. The depth Nack goes to in telling the story of this horse (it really does read like a story, and an engrossing one at that) from every perspective - pedigree, connections, syndication as well as Secretariat's life and career from foaling to stud - is staggering really.

By far and away the best racing book I have ever read.
 
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