RUBY – The Autobiography
Ruby Walsh is one of the most popular National Hunt jockeys of current times. He is a national institution in Ireland and is much loved this side of the Irish Sea as well.
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The Cheltenham World of Jump Racing
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! by Jilly Cooper
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.
Jilly Cooper’s JUMP! just released and already winning awards!
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.
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The Racing Eclipse cocktail
Eclipse was an 18th century British thoroughbred racehorse who was undefeated during his entire career. He won 18 races in total before retiring for lack of competition: nobody would bet on horses competing against him. He would often finish far in front – at the time a horse that was more than 240 yards behind
What’s in a Name?
Racing, without doubt, has its collection of archaic tweed-clad fuddy duddies at the helm and one of the jobs of one of the minor functionaries of the Jockey Club is to ensure that every horse which runs under the Rules of Racing doesn’t have an inappropriate name.
Nick Archer’s Racing Paintings
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…
Eclipse by Nicholas Clee
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
Method in My Madness by Richard Dunwoody
‘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