Racing Post Quiz Book

Author: Mart Matthews
Publisher: Racing Post Books
ISBN: 9781839500145
Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The ultimate quiz book for horse racing fans has arrived! How well do you know racing? Are you a short-priced favorite to finish clear of your rivals? Fancy yourself as a Group horse running in a handicap? Or are you more likely to flop than fly? Now's your chance to put your racing knowledge to the test with our brilliant new quiz book, featuring 1,000 questions in 100 themed sections on the biggest names and races the sport has to offer. The perfect gift for all horse racing fans--from the anoraks to the armchair fans alike--it really does have something for everyone.

Doped

Author: Jamie Reid
Publisher: Racing Post
ISBN: 9781909471511
Category : Doping in horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'Doped' is the gripping true-story racing thriller set in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s. Combining a potent mix of horse racing, drugs, sex, class, crime, gambling and the monarchy, it tells the true story of one of the biggest doping scandals in British racing history. In March 1962 an audacious attempt to nobble one of the royal horses alerted police to a well organised band of racecourse criminals, backed by murderous London gangsters. The subsequent Flying Squad pursuit of the gang brought the quaintly deferential world of racing into sharp conflict with the harsher realities of the 'You've never had it so good' era. This also coincided with the birth of the annual Dick Francis novel. The cast of characters is headed by William Roper, a debonair ex RAF Sergeant turned oddsmaker. His team included an ex jockey, numerous underpaid stable lads, an upper class gambling addict and a violent professional gangster who went on to face charges with the Kray twins in 1969. But the most fascinating member of Roper's firm was a beautiful and selfpossessed young Swiss woman called Micheline Lugeon who became the bookmaker's lover.

Dorothy Paget

Author: Graham Sharpe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910497760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Enemy Number One

Author: Patrick Veitch
Publisher: Racing Post
ISBN: 9781905156702
Category : Gamblers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The sensational inside story of how the UK's most feared professional punter overcame adversity to take the bookmakers for more than £10 million in an eight-year period. This book offers a brutal, often controversial, but utterly fascinating insight into Patrick Veitch's life of punting. Told in Veitch's own candid ice-cool style, with an intelligent wit throughout, this is quite simply a compelling read.

How's Your Dad?

Author: Mick Channon
Publisher: Racing Post
ISBN: 9781910497302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Racing Post Chronicles

Author: Graham Sharpe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839500800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Secret Keeper

Author: Kate Morton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439152810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

The Sure Thing

Author: Nick Townsend
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448136148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
__________________ The bookies always win. But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time with a racehorse called Yellow Sam. With a meticulous, entirely legal plan involving dozens of people, perfectly timed phone calls, sealed orders and months of preparation, Curley and Yellow Sam beat the bookmakers and cost them millions. They said that it could never happen again. But in May 2010, thirty-five years after his first coup, Curley staged the ultimate multi-million-pound-winning sequel. The Sure Thing tells the complete story of how he managed to organise the biggest gamble in racing history - and how he then followed up with yet another audacious scheme in January 2014.

Off Balance

Author: Matthew Kelly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101544287
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
The prescriptive follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Dream Manager. One of the major issues in our lives today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; no one has it. But Matthew Kelly believes that work- life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction. Kelly lays out the system he uses with his clients, his team, and himself to find deep, long-term satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He shows us how to cultivate the energy that will give us enough battery power for everything we need and want to do. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal & Professional Satisfaction System to establish and honor our biggest priorities, even if we spend a lot more time on some of the lesser ones.

The Blacktongue Thief

Author: Christopher Buehlman
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250621186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other. Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path. But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford. “The Blacktongue Thief is fast and fun and filled with crazy magic. I can't wait to see what Christopher Buehlman does next." - Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of the Lightbringer series At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.