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Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Cassidy is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths! University of London. She has written and edited a number of books on horseracing! animal domestication and gambling! including Horse People (2007) and Sport of Kings: Kinship! Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket (2002). Klappentext This text will provoke a discussion about the future of horseracing and is written in an accessible and scholarly style. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the history of horseracing in Britain; the thoroughbred in art and fiction; horseracing in Ireland! Australia! China and the United States; the lives of jockeys; betting; and technology. It will provoke discussion about the future of horseracing and is written in an accessible style by recognized experts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Horseracing: a chronology; Introduction Rebecca Cassidy; 1. Sporting with kings Richard Nash; 2. The thoroughbred in British art Douglas Fordham; 3. The fiction of horseracing Jane Smiley; 4. From Godolphin to Godolphin: the turf re-laid Wray Vamplew; 5. Festivals Sean Magee; 6. Bodies on the line: the social and physical capital of race riding John Maynard; 7. Life in the backstretch James Helmer; 8. Irish racing's peaceable kingdoms Michael Hinds; 9. 'Sydney or the Bush': adaptation, centrality and periphery in Australian horseracing Wayne Peake; 10. Saratoga style Jonathan Silverman; 11. The Dubai connection Rachel Pagones; 12. Racing in Asia Mark Godfrey; 13. Global markets, changing technology: the future of the betting industry Mark Davies; 14. Horseracing: local traditions and global connections Chris McConville.
