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In ‘Kick the Latch,’ the Iowa author reconstructs a hard, wild and tender life among horses

Celebrated sports photographer whose lyrical and technically innovative pictures transformed the genre into an art form

Pioneering sports photographer whose work revealed, through his composition, human endeavour and the poetry of motion

Son Of FlickaCoral Cup, 2012 It's the sign of a satisfying plot when a tale appears under the result in the Racing Post that begins, "the trainer said

This article was first published in the Racing Post on July 6, 2013 During the first of Jonjo ONeills remarkable comebacks it was his leg he and the doctors were trying to save. During the second, in 1986, six years after the freak accident at Bangor that snapped his right leg so brutally it felt "just like a bag of gravel", the stakes were somewhat higher. Cancer had struck. This time they were trying to save ONeills life. The darkness of those storm clouds of yesteryear should not be too easi...

UPDATED 11:58AM, MAR 2 2021 Prince Faisal had ten million reasons to celebrate following the Saudi Cup in Riyadh after his homebred star Mishriff added the worlds richest race to a record that already included the Prix du Jockey Club and the Prix Guillaume dOrnano. The story contained within Mishriffs pedigree encapsulates an approach to racing and breeding that has brought the Prince untold success over the past four decades. The four-year-old hails from his signature family, tracing ba...