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Manvers Road Star: A Horse Racing Story of Hope, Resilience and Second Chances (The Andy Cooper Series. Book 2)
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Shouting The Odds
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A tribute to Alderbrook, 1995 Winner of The Cheltenham Champion Hurdle
Every racing fan has a favourite horse that wins its way into their affections and in my case this horse was Alderbrook, a grand bay, who died in 2008 at the grand old age of nineteen. While there were better horses running on the flat in his time and some better hurdlers around too, there weren’t many. Alderbrook possessed all the attributes that I looked for in a thoroughbred; courage, bravery a
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"Jon Franklin’s Shouting The Odds is an impressively mature and emotionally layered debut that explores grief, fractured relationships, and personal redemption with remarkable sensitivity. Set against the backdrop of Nottingham’s working-class environ"
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“How different would Christmas have been had mum, dad and I known that it would be the last one we'd ever spend together?”
― Shouting The Odds
― Shouting The Odds
“Old men scribble combinations of numbers onto betting slips like mathematical equations, while others pass by, whispering the names of horses under their breaths like prayers.”
― Shouting The Odds: A Horse Racing Drama of Risk and Escape
― Shouting The Odds: A Horse Racing Drama of Risk and Escape
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