Eclipse
Subtitle: the horse that changed racing history forever
By: Nicholas Clee
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781590207376
Subjects: Horse racing; Eclipse (Race horse); History
Description: Traces the story of the champion whose descendants have included Secretariat, Barbaro, and all but three of the past half-century's Kentucky Derby winners, offering insight into the role played by owner, racing outcast, and gambler Dennis O'Kelly.--
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The chairman; title: The bawd; title: The gambler; title: The duke; title: The meat salesman; title: The young thoroughbred; title: Coup de Foudre; title: The rest nowhere; title: 1-100 Eclipse; title: The first lady abbess; title: The stallion; title: The most glorious spectacle; title: Cross and jostle; title: An example to the turf; title: The 14lb heart; title: The litigant; title: The decline of the jontleman; title: Artists' models; title: Eclipse's legacy : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; title: Eclipse's legacy : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; title: The skeleton; title: Appendix 1 : Eclipse's racing career; title: Appendix 2 : Eclipse's pedigree; title: Appendix 3 : The O'Kelly family; title: Appendix 4 : Racing terms, historical and contemporary.