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Making the Running

Ian Balding
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Clare Balding
Epsom
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Frankie Dettori
horse racing
Lester Piggott
Mill Reef
the Derby
the Queen
the Queen Mother
Willie Carson

Product details

  • ISBN 9780755312795
  • Weight: 213g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Mar 2005
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The image of the Derby winner with his leg in plaster was broadcast around the world. Alongside Mill Reef stood a baby-faced man who had won the Arc, the King George, the Eclipse, and now the Derby. He trained for the Queen and Queen Mother; and Lester Piggott, Willie Carson and Frankie Dettori all rode for him, but where had he come from and how had he got there?

Ian Balding's story is one of heartbreaking loss and outrageous good luck. He left Cambridge without a degree but with a rugby blue, and became one of the outstanding amateur sportsmen of his generation. Balding's burgeoning talent was quickly noticed and he was soon running Peter Hastings-Bass' stables at Kingsclere. Ian had no money and no experience of running a business, but he learnt fast. In Making the Running, Ian Balding reveals the pressure of maintaining the pace and shares the highs and lows of the sport of kings.
About Ian Balding
Ian Balding was an internationally respected trainer, but in his retirement now serves on many BHB and NTF committees and also writes regularly for Country Illustrated and Horse & Hound. Ian married Emma Hastings-Bass in 1969 and they have two children: Clare, a successful journalist and BBC broadcaster, and Andrew, Ian's successor at Kingsclere.

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