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Buy this book on-line KNIGHT, HENRIETTA: : BEST MATE - CHASING GOLD. [Author + ex-Jockey husband,both SIGNED,copy.]UK.NEWBURY,BERKSHIRE.HIGHDOWN.RACEFORM LTD.,2003. ISBN 190431743X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,double SIGNED,1st edn. FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn but both author and her ex-jockey husband [Terry Biddlecombe] handwitten signatures - without dedication - to the title page. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,author+subjects' colour photographic portraits illustrated front panel of dw/dj with gilt+b/w lettering,rear panel with colour portrait photograph of jockey A.P. McCoy; with negligible shelf-wear,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Front two corner tips minisculely rubbed and both head+foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj with minimal bumping and reciprocal creasing.Top edges with faint dust-soiling flecks,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,unblemised,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain light blu cloth boards/covers with bright crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a blue+white striped headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,double SIGNED,1st edn,7-231pp [paginated] includes 21 chapters and an afterword,16pp colour photograhs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp96/7 and pp160/1 respectively,a facsimile b/w reproduction Point-to Point racecard illustration,appendices (3) and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title page and double-SIGNED title page.
Two images immortalise Cheltenham 2003; the brilliant Best Mate sprinting clear to win the Gold Cup,champion for the second time,and trainer Henrietta Knight and her husband Terry Biddlecombe in a galloping celebration,not jusy of victory but of life itself.
This is the story of a horse and two people,all of whom have known pain and glory.It is a story about racing; it is also a story about tenderness and love and the attraction of opposites,of how a prim major's daughter met racing's bluff Prince Hal and became one the leading trainers of her generation.Above all,it is the story of Best Mate,christened the new Akle,of a champion's journey from a waterlogged field in County Meath to the pages of racing history,and how a horse can capture hearts.No less than the trainer and her husband,Best Mate has known adversity,surviving a traumatic first months of life and,in one of racing's best kept secrets,a damaging injury just months before that epic defence of the Gold Cup.
Working with award-winning Sunday Times journalist Andrew Longmore,Henrietta Knight has produced a unique and unforgettable insignt into the making of a champion and the shared dreams that sustain the team around him. Some horse,some story. If Best Mate is the people's horse,Henrietta Knight has become the people's trainer.
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