At the age of 20, Dennis Horn won his first English Rose - the
emblem of a National track champion. Throughout the 1930s he
rapidly graduated from the rough and tumble of makeshift grass
track racing at country fairs and gala sports days in provincial
towns to assail the heights of British track cycling on the great
urban cycling bastions of the time - the hard-surfaced stadiums of
London's Herne Hill and Manchester's Fallowfield - and become the
star of British track racing. Every year from 1931 to 1938 he was
awarded the season-long Meredith Trophy to add to those legendary
gold and silver cups he'd won in fiercely contested track battles
in front of crowds of tens of thousands. It was a cycling scene
entirely unique to Britain in the years before World War II. But
this is more than a simple tale of a strapping rural lad who took
on and beat the streetwise metropolitan champions of his era.
Dennis Horn, son of a Fenland blacksmith, proved himself to be as
astute as any of his urban contemporaries at treading the fine line
between amateurism and professionalism as defined by the
puritanical British cycling establishment of their day.
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