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Copyright © Simon Cooper 2020
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Source ISBN: 9780008307035
Ebook Edition © August 2020 ISBN: 9780008307059
Version: 2020-06-02
Mum
Sorry I didn’t finish in time.
‘And Allah took a handful of southerly wind,
blew His breath over it, and created the horse.’
Bedouin legend
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Epigraph
6 Contents
7 Prologue
8 1 Genetic alchemy
9 2 A certain kindness
10 3 Creation day
11 4 Day 343
12 5 More Irish than English
13 6 The Pick
14 7 In training for training
15 8 A horse by a very special name
16 9 Warren Place
17 10 Getting into his head
18 11 The 6.35 at Newmarket
19 12 Intensive training
20 13 Economical with the actualité
21 14 Winter dreaming
22 15 Leading from the front
23 16 Arise Sir Henry
24 17 Duel on the Downs
25 18 The high-stakes gamble
26 19 Hidden dips
27 20 Flying the standard
28 21 Always summer
29 22 The end of days
30 Epilogue
31 The Newmarket 11
32 Keeneland to fenland
33 A six-figure loss
34 Last man standing
35 The worst Derby runner ever?
36 Up in the air
37 A 99 per cent write-down
38 The cruellest cut
39 All-weather man
40 Pinhooked
41 Scandal
42 Shadow man
43 Acknowledgements
44 The Frankel File
45 Pedigree
46 Race record
47 Timeline
48 Awards
49 Frankel by numbers
50 Picture Section
51 Bibliography
52 Index
53 About the Author
54 About the Publisher
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