JERMYN STREET TAILOR TO PROVIDE SUIT FOR WINNING JOCKEY
FAVOURBROOK OFFER ADDED INCENTIVE TO SUCCESSFUL stanjamesuk.com 2000 GUINEAS-WINNING RIDER
FAVOURBROOK of Jermyn Street is offering an added bonus to whoever rides the winner of Saturday’s stanjamesuk.com 2000 Guineas.
The stylish London-based business has agreed to dress the successful jockey in a bespoke suit and waistcoat.
Renowned for their beautifully crafted occasion wear, Favourbrook create full made-to-measure dress coats, shirts and have a most stunning array of waistcoats.
Jermyn Street is an official partner of the StanJamesUK Guineas Festival. The famous street has a worldwide reputation as an established centre for gentleman’s fashion.
It dates back to 1664, which was around the time Charles II was advancing horseracing at the place that would become renowned as the sport’s home, Newmarket.
Newmarket’s managing director Stephen Wallis said: “It is well known that Charles II was responsible for establishing Newmarket as the Home of Horseracing in the 1660s. It is perhaps less well-known that at the same time he gave permission for Henry Jermyn, the Earl Of St Albans, to develop an area close to St James’s Palace.
“Nearly 350 years later, Newmarket remains the Home Of Horseracing, while Jermyn Street remains one of London’s most historic and fashionable districts.
“We are thrilled to have established a modern-day link between the racecourse and Jermyn Street, who have joined us as a partner for the StanJamesUK Guineas Festival.
“We are also very grateful to Favourbrook for kindly offering an extra prize for the victorious jockey from the stanjamesuk.com 2000 Guineas.”
TWO NEW BOOKS FROM SPORTSBOOKS PUBLISHED THIS MONTH
First is a collection of fascinating horseracing poetry from Jim Anderson entitled “Shergar and other Friends”
Jim was a contemporary of what was arguably one of the best late 1940s/50s “classes” of apprentice jockeys, such as Lester Piggott, Manny and Joe Mercer, Willie Snaith, Frankie Durr, Dennis Buckle, John Seagrave, Ron Sheather, Tommy Carter and many others.
Jim was also a work-rider for owners such as the Lords Rosebery, Milford and Allendale; Sir John Jarvis, Sir David Wills, Sir Allan Gordon-Smith and Charles Gordon. Plus of course, their trainer himself, Sir Jack Jarvis.
He shared in the preparation of various classic hopefuls but, following RAF service and some years away, a horse fell on him at exercise; an accident which ended his permanent involvement with racing.
He became a journalist and consoles himself by remembering that, when all else fails, descendants of horses he shared a saddle with have kept him happily nostalgic through the exploits of horses such as Derby winners Shergar, Kahyasi and Grundy and Grand National winners Mr Frisk and Earth Summit. He can also “claim” through Tomy Lee, Genuine Risk, Native Street, Monte Carlo and Three Troikas respectively: two Kentucky Derbies, a Kentucky Oaks, an Australian Derby and a Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe into the bargain!
Shergar and other Friends is a paperback at £6.99.
... well worth the attention of racing fans with a literary bent ... Anderson has a good eye, a good ear, a sound grasp of structure and rhyme-scheme, and, most importantly of all, first-hand knowledge of, and love for, thoroughbred racehorses.
charming anthology... great entertainment.
Andrew Baker, The Daily Telegraph
... original, skilful and strikingly affecting reflections by a most welcome fresh voice, former jockey Jim Anderson... Owners, trainers, runners, riders, horses, courses, the quick and the dud. Stimulating stuff, and on the whole - as he should - Anderson champions the little men. Anderson is a rare bird, the sporting poet who twigs the sportsman's very thick of things.
Frank Keating, The Guardian
The second is “Newmarket - a year at the home of horseracing”
Author John Carter interviewed and shadowed leading racing personalities from the famous such as jockeys Frankie Dettori, who also wrote the foreword, and Hayley Turner, trainer Jeremy Noseda and Newmarket clerk of the course Michael Prosser to backroom figures like stable lad Mark O’Reilly and punter Stan Singleton.
John also entered the world of breeding, talking to bloodstock agent Tom Goff and owner Jan Harris. The result is a book that reveals the ups and downs of horseracing life; from Jeremy Noseda’s disappointment on Guineas weekend to the high drama of Derby day, when, of course, the big race was won by a Newmarket-based jockey on a Newmarket-trained horse.
Also shadowed and interviewed is photographer Trevor Jones whose work illuminates the book.
“Newmarket - a year at the home of horseracing” is a hardback at £19.99.
Both books can be purchased from www.sportsbooks.ltd.uk
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