Author: Robin Oakley
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781313903
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Cheltenham Festival is nowadays the biggest event in the racing year – in visitor numbers eclipsing Royal Ascot, the Grand National or the Derby. In 2011 it is a hundred years since the 1911 running of the National Hunt Chase marked the birth of the Festival, providing the perfect occasion for Robin Oakley's new history. This is a work of both history and celebration – telling the story of how three days of jump racing beneath Cleeve Hill in Cheltenham became a vast sporting event attracting an average of 50,000 spectators per day. Before the War it saw legendary horses like Golden Miller; after the War the Irish invasion began – both horses and spectators; in the Sixties, Arkle, the greatest jumps horse of all time duelling with Mill House in the Gold Cup. In recent years there have been Cheltenham favourites like Desert Orchid, winning a gruelling Gold Cup in the mud, Dawn Run, Best Mate (2 Gold Cups), hurdlers like Istabraq and Persian War, and the grey hero One Man. But also it is a story of the craic and the characters, like the Irishman who won enough on Istabraq to pay off his mortgage, then lost it again on the Champion Chase, and reflected, "Ach, it was only a small house anyway…" This is a book for both the committed Festival-goer, Guinness in hand, and every armchair racing fan.
Author: NICK. PULFORD
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839500978
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Stewart Peters
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752432878
Category : Cheltenham Festival
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This is the definitive history of the Cheltenham Festival, covering the last forty years. Featuring the Gold Cup, the Queen Mother Championship Chase, the Championship Hurdle and other important races from each year, this is a great read for anyone with an interest in the sport of kings. Superbly illustrated with 100 photographs (80 colour) from the amazing collection of Bernard Parkin, one of the most respected photographers in the racing world, this is a beautiful and evocative book. All the results from each festival are included, as well as comprehensive backgrounds to the chief participants, the conditions and the characters associated with the event - from the legendary Arkle and Best Mate to Tom Dreaper and the Queen Mother. A lavish and comprehensive history of this major sporting event, it is an essential purchase for any racing fan.
Author: Richard Austen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907524509
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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With the Cheltenham Festival the sport of horseracing is in the grip of a year-round obsession. When one Festival ends, betting is already underway for the next, and with almost any good horse that emerges in the 12 months in between the question always seems to be whether it is good enough to run at Cheltenham.To win there represents the pinnacle of achievement, not only in British jumps racing but also for the sport in Ireland. To be there every year,is the goal of a multitude of racegoers from two nations.Racing Post and former Timeform journalist Richard Austen relives racing history being made in a series of Festival races from 1981 to 1991. Starting with his own boyhood connection to the top-class hurdler Birds Nest, he reveals the epic and moving stories behind some of the most celebrated horses in Festival history and others, equine and human, who beat the odds to play leading roles on one of the greatest stages in sport.Among the lesser-known subjects is Derring Rose, ‘the horse who preferred to go backwards’; in 1981, in the build-up to his wedding to Lady Diana Spencer, Prince Charles made an ill-starred Festival appearance as a jockey; 1982 saw an astonishing race between two Corinthians, the one a city gent who was later admonished in the High Court as ‘a cad’, while the other went on to be Milkman Of The Year and an MBE. At The Festival is inspired by the thrill of the race and wonder at the racehorse. It describes what it takes to achieve Festival success and what it means to those who have done it, in the face of danger and sometimes of tragedy.Cheltenham’s success is founded on the knowledge that the stories played out there can become racing legends. Stories such as these.
Author: Frank Howes
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Cheltenham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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"It has been said of Erasmus Darwin that no one from his day to ours has ever rivalled him in his achievements in such a wide range of fields. The most striking of Darwin's many talents was his extraordinary scientific insight in physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, and all aspects of biology?his deepest insight being his evolutionary theory of life. Two of his books, the Zoonomia, which made him famous as the leading medical mind of the 1790s, and The Temple of Nature, show that he believed life developed from microscopic specks in primeval seas through fishes and amphibians to "humankind." But he failed to convince the world about biological evolution?that was left to his grandson Charles. Erasmus was the first person to give a full description of how clouds form and of photosynthesis in plants. He was also an obsessive inventor of mechanical devices, among them a speaking machine, a copying machine, and the steering technique used in modern cars. Substantial donations of Darwin family papers, including over 170 letters written by Erasmus Darwin himself, have made it possible for the author to tell much of the enthralling story of his life in Erasmus' own words." --Publisher description
Author: Robin Stevens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481489143
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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“As entertaining as ever.” —The Horn Book Hazel and Daisy trade mistletoe for a murder investigation and set out to save the day (Christmas Day that is!) in this fabulously festive fifth novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas holidays in snowy Cambridge. Hazel is looking forward to a calm vacation among the beautiful spires, cozy libraries, and inviting tea-rooms. But there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College and two days before Christmas, there is a terrible accident. At least, it appears to be an accident—until the Detective Society looks a little closer, and realizes a murder has taken place. Faced with several irritating grown-ups and fierce competition from a rival agency, they must use all their cunning and courage if they’re going to find the killer before Christmas dinner.
Author: Michael Tanner
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
ISBN: 9781840185805
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Over the years, many of National Hunt racings most renowned equine and human celebraties have been associated with the hurdling's Blu Riband event. The roll of honour reads like an encyclopedia of the sport. From Blaris to Istabraq, all the great horses are her, notably the elite quintet of triple champions: 'the ugly duckling' Hattons Grace; surely 'the ul timate champion' Persian War; the irascible pair Sir Ken and See You Then--and Istabraq himself, denied his first crack at the elusive fourth title because of the disasterouis foot and mouth outbreak of 2001. Their stories evoke memories of mighty deeds, while those of horses like Merry Deal, Winning Fair, Dawn Run and Flakey Dove, for in stance, require belief in fairy tales. The gallery of human participants adds to the action and romance. No history can be dull when it involves owners like the inveterate gamb-ler and eccentric Dorothy Paget; trainers like the charismatic Ryan Pr ice, Irish Wizard Vincemt O'Brian or the mould breaking Martin Pipe--and jockeys such as the irrepressible Fred Winter and the unstoppable Tony McCoy.
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847658555
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.
Author: Anne Holland
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 1847179843
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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It is said the land level of Ireland rises a few feet every March because so many people have left for the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham. English-Irish rivalry at this pinnacle of jump racing has always been keen but it has risen to new levels in the 21st Century, with many Irish winners across all the races, including the Gold Cup, Queen Mother Chase, Champion Hurdle and Stayers Hurdle. But Festival Fever, The Irish At Cheltenham is about more than the winners, it is the whole atmosphere, the mix of ex-pat and visiting Irish among the thronging crowds, the craic; what goes on behind the scenes; many surprising stories are told. It is also about the fascinating history – racing was banned at Cheltenham for a period during the 19th century; and the 1980s saw a dearth of Irish runners which led to enterprising attempts by the racecourse to woo them back.
Author: Cheltenham. Cheltenham Festival of Literature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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