DoubleHandful

Learn about:

• A day at the races - from entry and dress code to how to read and understand a racecard
• Owning a racehorse - ownership, partnerships and syndicates, how owners can reclaim VAT, buying at the sales, claiming a horse from a race and how prize money is distributed
• Understanding a race - how the going is determined and its effect on horses, stalls and numbering, the draw, handicapping, race conditions, winning and in-running comments
• Betting and racing terminology - the different types of bets, racing language and slang
• Stewards' enquiries, objections, appeals and whip rules - what happens and why
• The racehorse itself - conformation, height, behaviour, common injuries, equipment and headgear, vision and whether horses are colour blind
• What horses are telling us - what neighing, flicking ears and tail swishing can tell you about their behaviour and emotions
• Questions you may never have thought to ask - Do horses know when they have won? How fast can they run? How far can a week-old foal run? Can horses vomit - or swallow their tongue? How are horses named, and how are an owner's racing colours chosen and registered? And just how safe is horseracing?
• Life inside racing - how young horses are educated, careers and how to become a jockey or trainer, autism in racing, racing charities, rehoming racehorses and life after racing
• Racecourses, television coverage and much more.

More than a book to read once, DoubleHandful is designed to be a racing companion you can return to again and again.

Horseracing explained - stride by stride.