- Hardcover: 275 pages
- Publisher: Metro Books; 1st edition (9 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1900512998
- ISBN-13: 978-1900512992
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 452,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Peter Walwyn was for more than thirty-five years one of the country's foremost racehorse trainers - and about the only trainer for whom racegoers and racing professionals alike have a deep and genuine affection. He was the first flat racing trainer to send out more than 100 winners in a season, was champion trainer and trained the great Derby winner Grundy. But the appeal of the book lies less in Peter Walwyn's achievements on the track, great though they may be, but in the nature of the man - one of the last great traditionalists of the turf. His lanky physique and eccentric behaviour led to him being nicknamed "Basil Fawlty"; he is a man with strong and outspoken opinions on every aspect of the racing game. He is also a fund of marvellous racing stories: in his long career, he has encountered scores of legendary racing personalities, from Lester Piggott to Frankie Dettori, and describes them with humorous relish. This book is not a conventional autobiography, more a collection of anecdotes by one of racing's best-loved characters.
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Format:Hardcover
'Handy All the Way' is the most readable of racing autobiographies and the reader will gallop from cover to cover unless he takes a tug and saves a bit for later.
The photographs are excellent and the recollections . . .of the races, big and not so big; of the horses; of the courses; of the jockeys and of the owners of all persuasions are laced with good humour and display incredible attention to detail.
The author says in his preface "I want those who pick up this book to feel, as they read through it, that they share in our triumphs and disasters". Spot on there. Another winner from Windsor House Stables.
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I really enjoyed this book and felt that I gained a real insight into the life and times of this top class racehorse trainer. I also felt that I learned a great deal about racing itself and the methods used to bring horses to their peak at the right time. Peter Walwyn was also forthcoming in his views on Racing and some of the personalities within the industry and pulled no punches.
It was a change to read a book about sport that was not "basic" in its content and written merely to bring added income to the author.
I can well recommned the book to anyone interested in racing, particulary if you like me sometimes yearn for the earlier days of racing where the intrigue of the racing world stilled seemed to exist.
It was a change to read a book about sport that was not "basic" in its content and written merely to bring added income to the author.
I can well recommned the book to anyone interested in racing, particulary if you like me sometimes yearn for the earlier days of racing where the intrigue of the racing world stilled seemed to exist.
Format:Paperback
can't disagree with the other reviewers that it is a good read but woefully inaccurate. The worst fault was the discussion on Mercer joining as stable jockey in 1981. He says Cecil pushed him out in favour of Cauthen. Absolute nonsense, Walwyn lost Eddery to O'Brien, Piggott went to Cecil and Mercer moved to Walwyn. Cauthen didn't become Cecil's stable jockey fully until 1985. Other notable mistakes: Lunchtime lost to Boldboy in the Greenham not Mon Fils; Patch was by St Paddy and not Royal Palace, etc etc..
Not big things in thmselves but if you can't get that right one begins to worry about the veracity of all of it
Not big things in thmselves but if you can't get that right one begins to worry about the veracity of all of it
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