Peerless Punchestown
Subtitle: 150 years of glorious tradition
By: Raymond Smith and Con Costello.
Contributors: Costello, Con.
Publisher: Published on behalf of Punchestown Racecourse Sporting Books Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Steeplechasing -- Ireland -- Punchestown -- History.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Punchestown - A special place in the annual social calendar; title: The first time Punchestown had to be cancelled; title: and a day of panic in the the Grand Stand; title: Pessimistic forecasts prove wrong - Punchestown 1925; title: an unsurpassed occasion; title: Prince of Wales draws an immense crowd of 150,000; title: The Beasley name is synonymous with Punchestown; title: Other great horsemen who became immortalised at Punchestown; title: When Paddy Sleator was 'King': A total of 32 festival winners; title: over a fourteen year span; title: Great horses from Mill House to Arlde and champion supreme Istahraq; title: Controversy stemmed from introduction of Bush Course in 1960; title: Bridget Lawlor - 'The Heroine of Punchestown'; title: Noted families carried on Pmnchestown's proud traditions; title: Eight English-traned winners at Puncheston '99; title: 'bm Jones blazed a tail for a decade; title: The Mullins dynasty play dominant role in eighties and nineties; title: The new Punchestown; title: Contributors; title: Index.