Ireland Greatest Racehorses Brian O'Connor 9781845136697 Books

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These days Irish horses dominate jump racing, while one of the finest Derby winners of recent years was Sea The Stars. The greatest steeplechasing horse of all time, Arkle, was Irish-bred and trained. Nijinsky, winner of England's great flat races, was trained in Ireland. Now, Brian O'Connor, Racing Correspondent of the Irish Times, selects a dozen truly great Irish horses of the last hundred years of racing history and devotes a chapter to each, assessing their calibre against the horses they had to beat, and analysing the particular source of each horse's greatness. The horses O'Connor selects are wonderfully different. There is Arkle's almost unearthly indestructibility, utterly trouncing the opposition whatever weight he had to carry in the toughest, most arduous steeplechases, and on the other hand there is Sinndar, the Aga Khan's colt whose quicksilver speed saw him become the first horse ever to win the treble of Epsom Derby, Irish Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. There is O