Keith Knight urges everyone involved in the racing game to tell their story for posterity

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Dick Hern

I would urge every jockey or trainer on the point of retirement to consider writing an autobiography or memoir. Although achieving publication is easier if the writer found fame, fortune or scandal during their careers, anyone who has worked in the sport for any length of time has a story worth telling.
Horse racing is infused with a history that reaches back to a time when landtravel could be accomplished only on foot or with horse power. History, it is said, especi...