Horse-Racing

by Gerald Hammond

In dictionary form, but offering much more than a dictionary, this book presents a guide to the history, development and usage of words and phrases employed on the racecourse, by those who train and look after the horses, those who ride them and those who lose their money betting on them. called; what the 'cap' was in handicap; what relation the wild goose chase had to the steeplechase; what is 'dead' about a dead heat and what the differences are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856359300
• ISBN13: 9780856359309
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 246 Pages