Eclipse The Horse That Changed Racing History Forever

by Clee, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9781590207376
• ISBN10: 1590207378
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781468300055
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-29
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Summary

A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are "nowhere." Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An adventurer and rogue who has made his money through gambling, Dennis O'Kelly is also companion to the madam of a notorious London brothel. While O'Kelly is destined to remain an outcast to the racing establishment, his horse will go on to become the undisputed, undefeated champion of his sport. Eclipse's male-line descendants include Secretariat, Barbaro, and all but three of the Kentucky Derby winners of the past fifty years.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
The Chairman	p. 3
The Bawd	p. 17
The Gambler	p. 27
The Duke	p. 40
The Meat Salesman	p. 52
The Young Thoroughbred	p. 62
Coup de Foudre	p. 74
The Rest Nowhere	p. 87
1-100 Eclipse	p. 97
The First Lady Abbess	p. 113
The Stallion	p. 128
The Most Glorious Spectacle	p. 140
Cross and Jostle	p. 158
An Example to the Turf	p. 169
The 14lb Heart	p. 181
The Litigant	p. 189
The Decline of the Jontleman	p. 203
Artists' Models	p. 215
Eclipse's Legacy - the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	p. 229
Eclipse's Legacy - the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries	p. 248
The Skeleton	p. 269
Sources	p. 281
Eclipse's Racing Career	p. 293
Eclipse's Pedigree	p. 298
The O'Kelly Family	p. 308
Racing Terms, Historical and Contemporary	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 314
Acknowledgements	p. 322
Picture Acknowledgements	p. 324
Index	p. 329
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