As featured in: 'Our role in remarkable success of lucky loser'

Sunday Express

As featured in: 'And they're off... Cheltenham is back'

Daily Express

‘Clark writes in a natural, almost conversational style – this is a must for any racing enthusiast.’

The Field, January 2022

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The Bristol Post, 10/12/21

As featured in: 'Author's tribute to Carlisle Racing'

Carlisle Living

As featured in The Kingsley Klarion: 'A most enjoyable read... Fans of the jumping code are sure to find much to enjoy in this fascinating study of some remarkable jockeys'. Read the full review here.

The Kingsley Klarion, November 2021

As featured in 'A potted history of modern jump racing and its toughest champions'. Read the full review here.

Racing Post

As featured in ‘BOOK REVIEWS: Great reads for Christmas and beyond’. Read the full review here.

The Irish Field, December 2021

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Horse and Hound

As featured in: Covering Some Of The Biggest Stories In Jump Racing Over The Last 75 Years

The Yorkshire Reporter, November 2021

As featured in: From Rimell to Skelton: moving story of racing's great champions

Yorkshire Post

Some cracking anecdotes from the past 75 years of National Hunt racing and an entertaining dip into the extreme life of a jump jockey.

Read the full review here

Horse & Hound

This fabulous book is a timely reminder of all those famous faces we used to watch on Saturday afternoons... brilliant!

Books Monthly

The other volume this year worth space in any racing library is Neil Clark’s Champion Jump Horse Racing Jockeys (White Owl, £25 ), which tells the stories of the 22 champions from Fred Rimell to Dan Skelton. The title race lately has been dominated by two men: Sir Anthony ‘AP’ McCoy (20 consecutive wins from 1995 to 1996) and Richard Johnson (16 times runner-up to McCoy before winning four titles himself between 2015 and 2019). Other multiple winners include such greats as Peter Scudamore, John Francome and Richard Dunwoody and racing anoraks will be grateful for Neil’s blow-by-blow recording of their leadership battles.

More fun though is his keen eye for anecdote and this book’s richest pleasures are found in the tales of part-forgotten heroes like 1946/47 champion Jack Dowdeswell, who had a stripe taken off him in the Royal Horse Artillery for ducking off to ride a Cheltenham winner. As an apprentice he earned two shillings a week, slaving 14 hours a day for the tartar Ted Gwilt. Bryan Marshall had the mixed fortune of riding for Dorothy Paget, who berated him at Folkestone one day after he had ridden her five winners but come second on the sixth. After another second on a Paget horse she went for him with a shooting stick.

The mild-mannered Dick Francis turned up one day to be interviewed by grandee trainer Peter Cazalet. A new would-be parish vicar was due the same day and a puzzled Francis was at first taken for the churchman. Saints and sinners, then — but heroes all.

Read the full review here

The Spectator, magazine issue: 30 October 2021

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The Yorkshire Post, 25/10/21

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Daily Express 02/10/21

As featured in Western Mail 'At first glance it looks a cracking read. The book traces how much National Hunt racing has changed since 1945

Western Mail