Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing
- The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Horseracing: a chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Sporting with Kings
- 2 The Thoroughbred in British Art
- 3 The Fiction of Horseracing
- 4 From Godolphin to Godolphin: The Turf Relaid
- 5 Festivals
- 6 Bodies on the Line: The Social and Physical Capital of Race Riding
- 7 Life in the Backstretch
- 8 Irish Racing’s Peaceable Kingdoms
- 9 ‘Sydney or the Bush’: Adaptation, Centrality and Periphery in Australian Horseracing
- 10 Saratoga Style
- 11 The Dubai Connection
- 12 Racing in Asia
- 13 Global Markets, Changing Technology: The Future of the Betting Industry
- 14 Horseracing: Local Traditions and Global Connections
- A Guide to Further Reading
- Index
Copyright page
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing
- The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Horseracing: a chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Sporting with Kings
- 2 The Thoroughbred in British Art
- 3 The Fiction of Horseracing
- 4 From Godolphin to Godolphin: The Turf Relaid
- 5 Festivals
- 6 Bodies on the Line: The Social and Physical Capital of Race Riding
- 7 Life in the Backstretch
- 8 Irish Racing’s Peaceable Kingdoms
- 9 ‘Sydney or the Bush’: Adaptation, Centrality and Periphery in Australian Horseracing
- 10 Saratoga Style
- 11 The Dubai Connection
- 12 Racing in Asia
- 13 Global Markets, Changing Technology: The Future of the Betting Industry
- 14 Horseracing: Local Traditions and Global Connections
- A Guide to Further Reading
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013