The fourth and final volume, published in 2025, in which the series moves its attention north. The thoroughbred was effectively created largely in Yorkshire and many of the early meetings there reflected that, but the large industrial towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire put on many major and minor fixtures, at and around Manchester and in the West Riding particularly. There were also many meetings in the contrastingly beautiful wildness of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland. Scotland had its own centre of breeding in the Borders, but meetings were held over all the country except the north-west, many of character and longevity – 75 in all. As with the other volumes, it is arranged by county and profusely illustrated, featuring more than 840 historic location maps and images of the old meetings, as well as modern aerial photos of the landscape as it appears today. Once again, it’s a big book, in its scope and in its physical dimensions, and readers will be sure to find many fascinating anecdotes and nuggets of information in its meticulously researched pages.
992 pages. Size: Demy Quarto, 280 x 215 mm. Hardback with dustwrapper
