Tag Archives: horse racing

Dead Point by Peter Temple (Quercus)

Posted on October 10, 2025 by drewsmith28

“On a grey whipped Wednesday in early winter, men in long coats came out and shot Renoir where he stood, noble, unbalanced, a foreleg dangling. In the terminating jolt of the bolt, dreams died.” Have a round on Jack Irish, … Continue reading →

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Ashes in the Wind by Christopher Bland (Head Zeus)

Posted on March 24, 2017 by drewsmith28

“John Burke wants to be Tomas Sullivan. John wants Tomas’s worn brown boots, the scabs on his knees, his green jersey darned with whatever coloured wool had come to his mother’s hand. He wants to talk like Tomas.” AN old … Continue reading →

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Doped by Jamie Read (Racing Post)

Posted on January 15, 2014 by drewsmith28

“BY THE end of 1959 Jack Stiles, glad to be free from Captain Ryan Price’s iron rule, was back in Newmarket and living in a second-floor flat in the Carlton Hotel on the High Street.” DOPED won the William Hill … Continue reading →

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