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Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, Published 2000. Paperback, 183 pp.; 23 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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In Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, and slight peeling at the bottom front corner. Mild overall toning and soiling to covers. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned. Otherwise unmarked.Autobiography of Edgar Britt, one of Australia's most successful jockeys, as told to Gerald Pynt. Over a thirty-year career begun in 1930, Britt rode in Australia, India, and Great Britain, winning the St Leger, Oaks, One Thousand and Two Thousand Guineas, and Irish Derby, and wore the colours of King George VI and the Maharajas of Kolhapur, Baroda, and Kashmir. First published in 1967 by Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney; this 2000 Pan Macmillan edition adds a new epilogue and a small selection of new anecdotes. Cover photograph of Edgar Britt with the Maharaja of Kolhapur.