(Hardback)

Popular horseracing correspondent David Ashforth selects these fascinating curiosities of racing and arranged in themes so that the reader can dip in and out.

Owners, jockeys, the horses, racecourses, officials, prizes, trainers and staff, racing journalists, betting, bookmakers, punters, skulduggery all are covered in this delightful collection.

(, New edition)

David Ashforth's life-long losing battle with bookmakers began while he was still a student at Cambridge. This text aims to appeal to anyone who has ever bet on a horse - and knows the agonies and ecstasies of winning and losing.