European Book Help

[repent]

help me out guys.
my favorite book is the Bloodhorse's Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century.
Im looking for a similar book for European horses of the 20th Century.
the closest thing I have found is a book the Racing Post published a few years back of their readers' 100 favorite racehorses of all time.
its not really the same thing.
Im going to buy it anyway, but I was wondering if any of you knew of anything closer to what I was looking for.
thanks.


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[Hwjb]

The problem you may find with the Favourite Racehorses book is that many (the majority) of the horses voted for are jumpers. Arkle is at #1 (incidentally would have won a vote for best racehorse as well!), ahead of Desert Orchid and Red Rum.
It's still a very good read, particularly if you want to learn more about the wonderful world of jumping!

Other than that there isn't much I can think of. We don't do anything approximal at Timeform. I did have an excellent book by the great racing historians John Randall and Tony Morris - called something simple like Horse Racing, can't quite remember - but that was printed about 15 years ago. Don't know if there have been any revised editions since, but well worth looking into.

[repent]

thanks Harry.
yeah,
figured that was largely what the favorite racehorses book would be about.
thats cool,
i like learning about the jumpers.

ive been ordering a lot of stuff from the racingpost website lately.
ordered the Irish Racing Journal the other day.
they have a good bookstore for anyone interested.


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[Scurlogue Champ]

Pent,

Here is a link to a site that has a lot of books.

They look pretty good and they do have special "flat" racing books. I'm not sure if they have exactly what you are looking for though.

Check it out,

http://www.racingpost.co.uk/bookshop/home.sd

[repent]

Originally Posted by moodwalker

Pent,

Here is a link to a site that has a lot of books.

They look pretty good and they do have special "flat" racing books. I'm not sure if they have exactly what you are looking for though.

Check it out,

http://www.racingpost.co.uk/bookshop/home.sd

thanks so much.
Im a reader and always want to find more thoroughbred racing books.


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[Unstable]

Not sure if your interested, but Paul Haigh (a writer for the racing post) has just finished and published a book about the greatest RACE COURSES around the world...... meant to be very good, but quite expensive i think.

You have probably seen this if your a regular on the RP bookshop site

[brockguy]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

Not sure if your interested, but Paul Haigh (a writer for the racing post) has just finished and published a book about the greatest RACE COURSES around the world...... meant to be very good, but quite expensive i think.

You have probably seen this if your a regular on the RP bookshop site

looks like a great book.. Ive been to nine so far. I wouldnt really consider Leopardstown as one of the nicest tracks in the world though..

the list is

Arlington, Ascot, Baden-Baden, Belmont Park, Chantilly, Churchill Downs, The Curragh, Deauville, Del Mar, Epsom Downs, Flemington, Goodwood, Happy Valley, Kranji, Kyoto, Leopardstown, Longchamp, Moonee Valley, Nad Al Sheba, Nakayama, Newmarket, Randwick, Santa Anita, Saratoga, Sha Tin, Tokyo, Woodbine and York

[Scav]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

Not sure if your interested, but Paul Haigh (a writer for the racing post) has just finished and published a book about the greatest RACE COURSES around the world...... meant to be very good, but quite expensive i think.

You have probably seen this if your a regular on the RP bookshop site

This guy has GREAT taste. Arlington Park

[Unstable]

I cant comment on Leopardstown, but i had a look around the curragh (i must say when racing wasnt on, however) and i wasnt impressed with the way it looked.

I wouldnt put Newmarket in there either........... it has been ruined for the 'general' racegoer and punter in my opinion.

York is a lovely course and probably my luckiest track, so i agree with him on that. All the yorkshire tracks have a really good atmosphere.

Although i have only been to Epsom for a couple of night meetings a few years back i wouldnt be preapred to include that in the list either.


Doesnt he include any jump tracks then??????? I cant see how you can have a great racecourse book without including Cheltenham and Punchestown, been to both festivals and they are fantastic (even though i spent the whole night in Dublin airport afterwards)