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Hi chaps. I did see this book, and I do have too many books
 . If you buy every privately printed tome by racehorse owners you be on your way to the poor house. Fascinating chap Lord Glanely and not many owners win all five classics. As you will know his colours (Black with Red White and Blue sash and hooped cap) are still around. |
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I don't know if the book about Lord Glanely that you're talking about is the one by Alfred Watson, but if it is, you can read it online, here..
https://archive.org/stream/greatyearlordgla00wats#page/n7/mode/2up |
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Cheers, Crepello.
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I wouldn't say I was grumpy. I just take an unsparing view of the game. It isn't really a sport, it's a slightly unseemly industry formulated on the basis that almost every punter must lose almost all the time. Only insiders, bookmakers and a few hard-headed obsessives really win. I have had many good wins, good runs and I believe I am quite a canny student of the form book, but my god it's bloody hard work to stay ahead.
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Well said Colonel.
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I agree with those seniments Cononelflay, damn hard work...
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ged - re the Glanely booK. Correct and it is easily available in book form too. Just that this one is signed by the man and has its original cover. I think he had the first hundred produced with a special cover and signed them for friends. Not sure though as I have never handled one.
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Nevison's best insight is that gambling is an emotional test, and one that too many of us fail to handle.
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Another pathetic Raceform publication is Secrets of Professional Punters. Very few secrets in it but an awful lot of pro punter smugness. Raceform's guide to betting on sprint handicaps is the most utterly tedious book I have ever held in my hands. I thoroughly enjoyed Gary Wiltshire's Winning It Back. Notwithstanding his disastrous Dettori pasting, it made me wish I'd been a bookmaker (though I don't have the mental arithmetic skills to run a whelk stall). David Ashforth's punting memoirs - I forget the name - is an interesting read, though suffers from the Racing Post ethos that a) you must never take the piss out of the game and b)pretend losing is fun. I speak with authority on that as I used to work there. The best racing book for ages must be Jamie Reid's Doped, about a 60s doping gang that even drugged the Queen Mother's horse. His punting memoir Days Like These is worth a read. It contains a funny chapter about him and his pal TV comic Mel Smith trying to pull off a coup at a course.
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It`s a lovely book Blackbarn and to be signed by the great man is something special. I would have bought it right away 30 years ago but I`ve been down scaling recently.
I`ve got a signed copy of Sir Gordon`s book My Story. I would think it could be worth a few quid. £50 - £100. Mind you, I recently got £350 for a copy of Ernst Kaltenbrunner - An Idealogical Soldier Of The Third Reich and that wasn`t signed  When I saw it going for £400 I thought they can have my copy for £350 and it went in a day. Not bad a return for a book which cost £15 in the 1980s.I`ve got many others that are worth a lot more.  |
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After 30 years at the game, would still say by far and away the best book is the most obvious one. Raceform paper form book. You'll find a LOT of winners in that f ckr !
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