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Jonathan Garratt review David Ashforth's Curiosities of Horseracing

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Jonathan Garratt review David Ashforth's Curiosities of Horseracing

https://theborderpost.co.uk/curiosities/ Giving books, however, is always a pleasure – especially if they’re books about horseracing. Which is why, this week, we’re giving away a copy of David Ashforth’s latest release Curiosities of Horseracing (so much more valuable than the tips we hand out – this Saturday’s selection is Eagle’s Realm in the Prelude Hurdle at Market Rasen). As a columnist on The Sporting Life, David Ashforth inspired readers with his weekly insight – not just reports of who won what and by how far – but, more typically, which horses he’d backed and how much he’d lost. And all the while, we’d be entertained with...

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Autumn - A season of new endings and beginnings - To Everything a Season

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Autumn - A season of new endings and beginnings - To Everything a Season

The CPRE have included an extract from To Everything a Season by Charles Moseley: 

Autumn means the end of the year for some and a new term and start to an annual cycle for others. And maybe both at different times of life. Charles Moseley, in some extracts from his memoir of living in the Fens, reflects on both.

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A Racing Post review for Ashforth's Curiosities of Horseracing

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A Racing Post review for Ashforth's Curiosities of Horseracing
The book is getting off to a strong start: Racing Post’s Front Runner pundit Chris Cook has declared it to be: ‘immensely readable, entertaining and informative from beginning to end.

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Renowned Ex-Racing Post Journalist Launches Brand New Book at World’s Oldest Racecourse

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Renowned Ex-Racing Post Journalist Launches Brand New Book at World’s Oldest Racecourse
This Saturday 24th September, ex-Racing Post journalist David Ashforth will launch his brand new book ‘Ashforth’s Curiosities of Horseracing’ at Chester Racecourse and in partnership with Tote during the Autumn Festival Saturday race meeting.

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A review for Everything you wanted to know about the Countryside... (but didn't dare ask)

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A review for Everything you wanted to know about the Countryside... (but didn't dare ask)

Review by Alasdair Crosby: Editor of Rural Jersey Country Life Magazine

I am honestly, truthfully in awe of the range of the author’s knowledge about rural Britain. It seems to be encyclopaedic, and the range of contents is vast.

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