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The Cheltenham Et Al: The Best of Alastair Down by Alastair Down (Hardcover, 2014)
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Alastair Down on the Cheltenham Festival: 'To go there and stand witness to extraordinary events is a rare and wonderful act of being at one with your fellow clutterers of the planet.' On his favourite racehorse: 'I'll still thump anyone who doesn't appreciate that Rondetto was the greatest chaser of all time.' On recovering after an over-indulgent day at Longchamp: 'I just wish to be left alone with my thoughts and sincere hopes that my liver, which I mailed home by separate refrigerated container, will arrive soon.' On Frankel's last race: 'There were tears speckling the cheers, because there is something almost inexplicably humbling about being in the presence of greatness of this magnitude.' For over thirty years Alastair Down has written about horseracing with an unrivalled cocktail of wit, insight, passion and descriptive power - a combination which has brought him legions of enthusiastic readers, both within and beyond the racing world. Cheltenham et Al offers a generous collection of his very best columns, providing the Down angle on the great horses, jockeys and trainers; the famous races which remain indelibly in the sport's collective memory; the controversies; the laughs - in short, the highs and the lows of racing. By turns moving, uplifting and laugh-out-loud funny, this book provides ample proof of one racing certainty: that no one catches the spirit of racing as Alastair Down does.Product Identifiers
PublisherRaceform LTD
ISBN-139781908216052
eBay Product ID (ePID)27046656034
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Publication Year2014
Book TitleThe Cheltenham Et Al: the Best of Alastair Down
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreSports
AuthorAlastair Down
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAlastair Down
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- 30 Oct, 2024
Sublime Wordsmith.
I don’t think that anyone would argue against Alastair Down being the Greatest Modern writer on Horse Racing. His Pieces over the years for the racing press have given me Mostly Joy but a little Sadness and when writing about Cheltenham it is obvious that it is his Holy Place. Long may you Reign Alastair Down.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
