Cheltenham is the Mecca of jumps racing; Mick Fitzgerald is one of the most admired and popular jockeys of recent generations, whose many big-race victories include the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Cheltenham World of Jump Racing, published by the Racing Post, brings together the two to celebrate jump racing in all its moods as the vibrant, […]
Jump! is Jilly Cooper’s latest blockbusting novel – and the first since 2006. It’s vintage Cooper: a fabulously entertaining romp through the world of jump racing, with a wonderful cast including several cameo appearances from some of her best-loved characters.
Reviewers at Eclipsemagazine.co.uk were so impressed with Jilly Cooper’s latest novel, JUMP!, that they were inspired to create a new award: the Eclipse Cup Award for Services to the Social Side of Racing.
Jilly Cooper’s JUMP! just released and already winning awards! Read More »
Artist Nick Archer has won prestigious awards and commissions – and his paintings of racehorses are beautiful. Eclipse asked him to tell us more about his work…
Nicholas Clee introduces his book: Eclipse – all about our favourite racehorse! This website is not the only place where you will find tribute paid to Eclipse, the great 18th-century Thoroughbred. Sandown Park stages the Coral Eclipse Stakes, one of the most important races in the English Flat racing calendar. In America, the Oscars of
‘Do you miss it?’ is the title of the first chapter, and this question lies at the heart of Method In My Madness, Richard Dunwoody’s autobiography of a decade in retirement. “All sportsmen fear retirement. Time is our great enemy,” 14 times Champion Jockey AP McCoy acknowledges in the foreword, and this thought-provoking and self-aware
