Turftalk: Cracking Reads and Not a Dodgepot Among Them

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THERE have been a slew of good books about racing out recently (though none as good as Rock of Gibraltar, by a brilliant author and still available from Amazon and all good booksellers) and I am pleased to select three for your delectation.

Regular readers may recall that I have often tried to explain racing's unique jargon in this column. I have often wondered if a racing dictionary might be publishable, but not for the first time, somebody has beaten me to it. The Racing Lexicon is the second work of John Leigh and David Woodhouse and is just as funny and useful as their previous work on football's mad lingo.

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Turftalk: Cracking Reads and Not a Dodgepot Among Them

Ranging across the whole sport, from betting terms to form explanations, the lexicon explains in mostly humorous style the very many words and phrases which are associated with racing, though some phrases, such as...

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