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If there was a Thoroughbred who ever needed legal counsel to mount an adequate defense of his life, then perhaps it would be Calumet Farm's MGISW Alydar. His battles with rival Affirmed as both a juvenile, and of course, through the 1978 Triple Crown are now the stuff of legend. However, what has clouded all those spectacular past performances came during his stallion career when he tragically died from an injury which was sustained while he was in his Calumet stall on a November night in 1990. Officially chalked up...

MICHAEL CHANNON JR McIlvanney on Horseracing By Hugh McIlvanney I feel a bit like Alan Partridge nominating his favourite Beatles album as 'The Best of The Beatles,' mainly because the racing book I enjoyed most is McIlvanney on Horseracing. Wide-ranging and written by the most absorbing eye witness in history, it has everything. I've read a few autobiographies and enjoyed some of them but that has always been tempered by the knowledge that they've been ghost-written. McIlvanney is the best.    If you would like to share your favourite racing...