FRED RICKABY - ARE YOUR HORSES TRYING? 1969 ED ILLUS TRAINING TEXBOOK TRAINING, FEEDING, LAMENESS

Advice on racehorse training, feeding, lameness, etc., by a leading British trainer London, Fwd. by Sir Gordon Richards. He live in South Africa for 19 years. He also passed on some of his wisdom via the two books which he had written in South Africa, the first, Are Your horses Trying?, primarily a training textbook, and the second, More Trying Horses, a volume of memoirs. In 1967 Rickaby, along with the other trainers in Durban’s Newmarket training complex, was relocated to the new Summerveld centre outside the city, and from here he sent out the best of his champions: Durban July Handicap winners, Jollify in 1967 (ridden by the stable apprentice John Gorton, subsequently a classic-winning jockey in Britain), Naval Escort in 1969 and Sledgehammer (“by far the best horse I ever trained”), Horse of the Year in 1974-75. Sledgehammer, owned by Cyril and Peggy Hurvitz and ridden by Rickaby’s stable jockey, Michael Roberts (then in the early stages of a glittering career during which he was crowned Britain’s champion jockey in 1992), won more big races the following season, at the end of which, further assisted by the victory of Majestic Crown in the Holiday Inns Handicap (then South Africa’s biggest race), he was crowned champion trainer. Two years later he retired. He was married to Molly Reinhardt (see her books also on kingmidasgold2)

J.A. Allen 1969 reprint. 191p, with index 20 ills., 1 in color, hardback well-binded clean white pages, small neat bookstamp on first end paper with illus cartoons, drawings old photos Merrivale etc.