The Sport of Kings
Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 August 2002
- ISBN 9780521808774
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 234x156x17 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
'Behind the scenes' description of British flat racing based on Cassidy's experiences working in Newmarket.
MoreLong description:
The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding, and pursues the idea that in making statements about animals, we reveal something of ourselves. It explains the action that takes place on racecourses, in training yards, on studs and at bloodstock auctions. It analyses the consumption of racing through betting on the racecourse and in betting shops, and it proffers an insightful description of a unique class system: that of the humans and animals involved in the production of British flat racing.
'This is an exhilarating book. You feel affection and empathy for Newmarket people ... Above all, the reader feels affection towards the author ... we watch over her, sleeping in the back of a smelly horse box, returning from a race ... [The book] is both academic and animal, with the author putting herself on the line.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Headquarters; 3. Keeping it in the family; 4. At the races; 5. Having a flutter; 6. Going once, going twice ...; 7. One of the lads; 8. Doing it for Daddy; 9. Blood will tell; 10. Conclusions; List of references; Index.
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