A Year in the Life of Lambourn
Lambourn in Berkshire, home to nearly forty trainers and around 1500 horses, both jumpers and Flat racers, lives and breathes racing like no other community in Britain. In 'Valley of the Racehorse', Robin Oakley gets into the heart to reveal how it all works. Nowhere else will you find such a concentration of the sport's key characters, past and present.
Robin Oakley has talked to the well-known names as well as to smaller trainers, stable lads, saddlers, blacksmiths and gallop men about their dreams and their techniques. The result is a vivid and fascinating picture not just of the workings of a racing village but of a unique way of life.
