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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
So many brilliant horses, 26 Feb 2003
Any book of this kind is bound to be contentious – how do you select 100 horses from over 200 years of racing in several different countries? Inevitably, there is a bias in favor of the last half-century – it is what the author has seen at first hand and it is what anybody buying the book will have seen. Julian, who fronted BBC TV’s racing coverage for many years so is more familiar with such horses, admits to a bias in favor of Britain and Ireland. Only nine American horses (Cigar, Citation, Kelso, Man O’ War, Native Dancer, Seattle Slew, Secretariat, War Admiral and Jay Trump) and one Canadian (Northern Dancer) are featured. Some of the others were bred in America, including Mill Reef, Nijinsky and Sir Ivor, but ran their races in Europe. There are also a few horses from elsewhere, mostly France. Aside from any dispute about which horses are the 100 best ever, this is a well-illustrated book which gives a good summary of each horse’s story, together with a list of big race wins and a pedigree going back four generations. Each horse gets 2 or 3 pages including pictures - usually photographs, but a painting in the case of those horses that pre-date photography. Anybody interested in great British and Irish racehorses is unlikely to find a better book of this type.
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