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Unbreakable
(Paperback)
Richard Askwith
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Discover a story that defies belief: National Velvet meets Downton
Abbey with a splash of The Leopard. * LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM
HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR * Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast
crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase,
Europe's most blood-curdling sporting test of manhood. With war
looming, the race has a brutal political significance. The Nazis
have sent the SS's all-conquering paramilitary horsemen to crush -
yet again - the 'subhuman Slavs'. But Lata Brandisova, a
silver-haired countess on a little golden mare, has other ideas...
'Heart-stopping reading' Clover Stroud, Daily Telegraph
The Mongol Derby is the world's toughest horse race. A feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan, competitors ride 25 horses across a distance of 1000km. Many riders don't make it to the finish line.
In 2013 Lara Prior-Palmer - nineteen, underprepared but seeking the great unknown - decided to enter the race. Driven by her own restlessness, stubbornness, and a lifelong love of horses, she raced for seven days through extreme heat and terrifying storms, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration, exhaustion and bruising falls, she found she had nothing to lose, and tore through the field with her motley crew of horses. In one of the Derby's most unexpected results, she became the youngest-ever champion and the first woman to win the race.
A tale of adventure, fortitude and poetry, Rough Magic is the extraordinary story of one young woman's encounter with oblivion, and herself.
Red Rum's classic win in the 1977 Grand National is the stuff of
sporting legend. Red himself became a national treasure, and his
charismatic trainer - the redoubtable Ginger McCain - became a
sporting hero. While the public adored Ginger, there were those who
sniped that he was a one-horse trainer. All that changed 27 years
later when, in a thrilling race, Ginger won his fourth National
with Amberleigh House, equalling the record of Fred Rimmer. Once
again Ginger had taken the sporting world by storm. In the 70s, the
popularity of Red Rum and Ginger almost single-handedly saved the
great race when there were plans afoot to turn the track into a
housing estate. Ginger himself is a remarkable individual -
charming, forthright, not afraid to speak his mind and a hugely
entertaining raconteur. This is his story, at times funny, sad,
exciting and always captivating, told in his own inimitable style.
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