- Hardcover: 215 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; 1st edition (13 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747216819
- ISBN-13: 978-0747216810
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #95 in Books > Biography > Social & Health Issues > Gambling Addiction
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A humorous account of one man's life-long obsession with gambling on horses, which describes a losing battle with the bookmakers that began as part of undergraduate life at Cambridge and continued through twenty-five years of racing misadventures and occasional coups.
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For anybody with any interest in racehorses and gambling Hitting the Turf is a little gem and a must-read.
I bought it when it was first published around 1997 (?) and I've re-read it many times. I can open at it on any page and be immediately drawn into it.
Eccentrics, heros (and eccentric heros), hard luck stories, fools and horses are all there
David Ashforth writes a series of anecdotes superbly well that are informative, interesting and in very many places laugh-out-load hilarious.
Not a boring page in sight.
I bought it when it was first published around 1997 (?) and I've re-read it many times. I can open at it on any page and be immediately drawn into it.
Eccentrics, heros (and eccentric heros), hard luck stories, fools and horses are all there
David Ashforth writes a series of anecdotes superbly well that are informative, interesting and in very many places laugh-out-load hilarious.
Not a boring page in sight.
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