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Horse racing is much more than an excuse for gambling. It is a love for the beauty, grace and speed of the horse. It can also be an intellectual battle of examining competing facts and trying to formulate the future from results of the past. In some ways it is an investigation, as performed by an eager detective. And in other ways it can be the thrill of a crossword puzzle, with multiple possible responses, but ultimately only one correct answer. It is a thing of beauty as much as it is a matter of commerce. I have been involved with horse racing in both practical and intellectual ways. From time spent as an apprentice jockey, to later the research of bloodlines in the multimillion dollar world of thoroughbred breeding and sales. And for the past twelve years I have provided speedrating information to the racing industry and public through my company: Speedratings (www.speedratings.com.au).

Titles

April 22nd 2008 07:16
Book titles

Between my time in the thoroughbred breeding industry, the research and publication of pedigrees, and currently in my online racing business, I did have the time to finish the novel that I had been writing at nights and in spare time for several years. I'm not sure if the world is yet ready for a magic realism novel set in the world of thoroughbred horse racing. My novel had the title: Monkey On A Stick. That is the description given to champion jockey Tod Sloan when he popularised riding with short stirrup leathers and a crouch forward style (modern) as opposed to the old straight back riding style shared by cowboys and riders of leisure.


But I think that Dick Francis had some of the best titles for his books (he was a guilty pleasure of mine. I must admit that they are mostly very engaging stories, even if we don't enter into the controversy as to whether he wrote everything, or was in collaboration with his wife). Here are a few:

Blood Sport; Bonecrack; Come To Grief; Dead Cert; Flying Finish; In The Frame; Reflex. These just to name a few.

But I have to admit that my favourite title of all books that I have ever read is the sublime: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being. Actually, it is my favourite book. Another that is very close to this masterpiece from Milan Kundera is Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Both books as brilliant as their titles.

Dick Francis Bonecrack
Dick Francis Bonecrack
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Comment by Harry

April 23rd 2008 03:53
Bonecrack -- has to be the best

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