Eclipse : the horse that changed racing history forever

Summary: Traces the story of the champion whose descendants have included Secretariat, Barbaro, and all but three of the past half-century's Kentucky Derby winners, offering insight into the role played by owner, racing outcast, and gambler Dennis O'Kelly.

Item details

ISBN: 9781590207376
ISBN: 1590207378
Physical Description: print
343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2012.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	First published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-321) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue -- The chairman -- The bawd -- The gambler -- The duke -- The meat salesman -- The young thoroughbred -- Coup de Foudre -- The rest nowhere -- 1-100 Eclipse -- The first lady abbess -- The stallion -- The most glorious spectacle -- Cross and jostle -- An example to the turf -- The 14lb heart -- The litigant -- The decline of the jontleman -- Artists' models -- Eclipse's legacy : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Eclipse's legacy : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The skeleton -- Appendix 1 : Eclipse's racing career -- Appendix 2 : Eclipse's pedigree -- Appendix 3 : The O'Kelly family -- Appendix 4 : Racing terms, historical and contemporary.

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Horse racing Great Britain History 18th century
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