The first book to offer a comprehensive history of racing at Newmarket Heath Lavishly illustrated throughout with historic images A must-have for those interested in the history and development of racing in the UK and worldwide
David Oldrey is a former Deputy Senior Steward of the Jockey Club and a historian of horseracing and its art. He is author of the Jockey Club rooms, a Catalogue and History of the Collection and the Halifax Collection of sporting art. Timothy Cox is a historian of the thoroughbred with an extensive library. He owns and operates The Cox Library, a free online bibliography of works on the thoroughbred horse. Richard Nash is a Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of a prize-winning book, Wild Enlightenment: The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century (University Press of Virginia, 2003) and many essays on eighteenth-century British literature and culture. He is currently at work on a book on the origins of thoroughbred horse racing, and his horses race under the nom de course of Byerly Bloodstock LLC.
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