A complete yet concise annual guide to the 2005-2006 National Hunt horse racing season, featuring detailed results from last season, profiles of the 50 horses to follow, top trainers, jockeys and owners for the new season, and a racecourse guide. Regularly described as 'the best buy in racing', this annual also includes betting tips from all Racing and Football Outlook's talented punters and an interview with a leading trainer who profiles his horses for the year ahead.
The magnetic appeal of the Grand National - by those who didn't win it, and one who did. Every year there is one Grand National-winning jockey - and 39 who tried but failed to win the world's most famous horse race. Some fell at the first fence. Others were beaten a whisker in a heart-stopping finish. But every rider who has ever taken on the fearsome Grand National fences has his - and her - unique memories of one the greatest challenges in sport.
Together with Chris Bonington and other distinguished British climbers, Stephen Venables was high on the unclimbed and sacred mountain of Panch Chuli when, at 1am on a dark Himalayan night, his abseil failed and he fell catastrophically, somersaulting from rock to rock and landing, seriously-wounded, at the end of a rope suspended above a 50-degree icefield. This is the story of his arduous and almost miraculous survival, and of the brilliant, committed teamwork which brought him to safety.
In Head to Head, award-winning writer Lenny Shulman offers highlights from the best interviews he has conducted throughout his twenty-year career covering Thoroughbred horse racing. In that time, he has coaxed the innermost thoughts out of the sport's most notable headline-makers. It was to Shulman that Helen "Penny" Chenery, owner of Secretariat, publicly revealed for the first time the mistakes she made with her superstar colt. Arthur Hancock III shared with him his feelings of being banished...
Maryland Steeplechasing (Images of America)
by Christianna McCausland
When the first settlers arrived in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, they found an astonishing landscape of open woodland grazed by vast herds of bison. Farmers quickly replaced the bison with cattle, sheep, and horses, but left many of the trees to shade their pastures. Today, central Kentucky and central Tennessee still boast one of the largest populations of presettlement trees in the nation, found in both rural and urban areas. In Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the B...
This is the latest edition of Raceform's definitive A-Z directory of every racehorse that ran in Britain during the previous Flat Season. Each entry includes statistics and descriptions for each horse in 2005 and clues to its likely prospects in 2006. This is a companion volume to "Raceform's Form Book Flat Annual for 2006", differing in that it lists horses in an alphabetical arrangement.