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Racing Ron: Winning at the Track and Life
Ron Taylor’s broad involvement with horse racing from 1948, when he began
his journalistic career, to the present day has given him a knowledge of the
sport and its participants that is unique in the industry today.
He has seen all the champion horses who have performed during that
73-year period and has met and spoken with most of their trainers and
jockeys. In Racing Ron his exclusive interviews and conversations with some
of those participants gives you an insight into their characters you have
never read before. He tells you of his personal dealings with such heroes of
the sport as Bart Cummings, Roy Higgins, Tommy Smith and George Moore,
and how he came to call them all his friends.
But this book is not just about his life and times as a racing writer. It covers
many aspects of his life and career including his time living in Tuscany that
offers an insight into Italy you won’t find in a brochure, and some amazing
anecdotes from his nearly 20 years as a Tour Leader for racing tours around
the world. You won’t believe the antics some of the tourists got up to, and the
worries and tribulations he sometimes endured before bringing those tours
to a successful conclusion.
his journalistic career, to the present day has given him a knowledge of the
sport and its participants that is unique in the industry today.
He has seen all the champion horses who have performed during that
73-year period and has met and spoken with most of their trainers and
jockeys. In Racing Ron his exclusive interviews and conversations with some
of those participants gives you an insight into their characters you have
never read before. He tells you of his personal dealings with such heroes of
the sport as Bart Cummings, Roy Higgins, Tommy Smith and George Moore,
and how he came to call them all his friends.
But this book is not just about his life and times as a racing writer. It covers
many aspects of his life and career including his time living in Tuscany that
offers an insight into Italy you won’t find in a brochure, and some amazing
anecdotes from his nearly 20 years as a Tour Leader for racing tours around
the world. You won’t believe the antics some of the tourists got up to, and the
worries and tribulations he sometimes endured before bringing those tours
to a successful conclusion.
256 pages, Paperback
Published August 10, 2021
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March 25, 2022
I purchased and read this book because Ron Taylor and his wife Lola and their 2 sons were our neighbours in Keilor for many years. A very interesting and informative book for the racing enthusiast. A grand effort Ron
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