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The Cheltenham Et Al - The Best of Alastair Down (Hardcover)
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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.
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