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Eclipse: The story of the rogue, the madam, and the horse that changed racing
Telegraph review of recently published Eclipse biography by Nicholas Clee makes the work sound as though it's a bit of modern Trollope, centered around a great horse, who was, even towards the end of his life, hard used: "In the end, even the mighty Eclipse became what can only be described as shagged out, and in the declining months of his 24-year-life was conveyed from mare to mare in what was almost certainly the first ever horsebox."
horseracing  great-horses  biography  eclipse 
march 2009 by jnchapel
LRB - Hilary Mantel - Frocks and Shocks
"There are some lives we read backwards, from bloody exit to obscure entrance, and Jane’s is one of them."
english-history  biography  tudors  writing 
may 2008 by jnchapel

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