Thoroughbreds, Trainers, Toffs and Tic Tac Men by David Grant

Horse racing has a colourful history, and this is an entertaining account of the sport in this country. David Grant, who last year wrote a history of the TAB, has written selected chapters based around these drawings by New Zealand cartoonists from about the 1880s to modern times.

Table of Contents - Introduction Overview Racing as a carnival Bookies: their rise and fall Bookies: keeping on keeping on Racing and God Jockeys' strike of 1920 Dr Thacker and the Prince of Wales The Bollard Fiasco Police Offences Amendment Bill 1926 Doping Commentators Pocket money Women jockeys The jackpots Kiwi Sexism in racing The TAB Whips Night gallops Earlybird racing Christian Cullen Michael Walker Zabeel and Hawkesby http://www.tab.co.nz Kenny Browne The horse as an image Miscellany Index

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