Bluffer's Guide to Horseracing - Brossura

Ashforth, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1909937363 ISBN 13: 9781909937369

Casa editrice: Bluffers Guides Limited, 2015

Riassunto

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of horseracing. Know what to say, what not to say, what to back, when to bet, and why you should never be tempted to invest in a thoroughbred without enquiring if it has got a leg . Never again confuse an exacta with a trifecta, a hurdle race with a steeplechase, or an ante post with a winning post. Easily distinguish between going that s good to soft , or heavy , or not going at all as in the case of a racecourse that s just closed. Bask in the admiration of your fellow racing aficionados as you pronounce confidently on a range of turf-related issues, and hold your own against the most arrogant and dismissive of so-called racing experts. DO SAY Evidently the Queen took a liking to my filly at Sir Michael s yard the other day. DON T SAY It came to me in a dream... it romped home at 12 to 1, beating the favourite by a short nose. So I put a hundred on it. How was I to know it had a leg ?

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Brilliantly funny and well informed. Ashforth is the real deal. --Charlie Brooks, Racehorse Trainer And Ex-Jockey

David Ashforth writes like an angel. This utterly brilliant, wildly funny guide to racing will be invaluable to any newcomers. Whether its rampant iconoclasm will encourage any of them to dare invest in a racehorse is debatable. --Jilly Cooper

L'autore

Twice voted Horserace Writer of the Year, David Ashforth has reported on the races from around the world but somehow always ends up at a Brighton Racecourse. A horse rider himself (Radnage House riding school, Wycombe Hospital), only an absence of ability prevented him from staying on. Instead, during over 20 years with The Sporting Life and Racing Post, he has commented freely on the shortcomings of professional jockeys, particularly when failing to win when selected to do so. He still believes that Joe Mercer should have won the 1978 Cambridgeshire on Claudio Nicolai. The author of several books, none of which you will have heard of, David studied History and betting shops at Cambridge University before specialising in the treatment of poverty in the nineteenth century and its acquisition in the twentieth, mainly in Ladbrokes.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bluffers Guides Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1909937363
• ISBN 13: 9781909937369
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile