For decades Peter O’Sullevan was one of the great sports commentators, providing the sound track for half a century of horseracing as he called home such legends as Arkle, Nijinsky, Red Rum and Desert Orchid.
But in addition to his status as a TV personality, ‘The Voice of Racing’ was also a notable journalist and much-admired writer, and it is a measure of his standing both within and beyond his sport that his compulsively readable autobiography Calling the Horses, first published in 1989 and reprinted eight times, reached the top of The Sunday Times bestseller list.
The heartening news for the legions of Peter O’Sullevan fans is that, despite his years, his enthusiasm for racing is undiminished, and so are the elegance, fluency and with which infuse his writing style.
This new and extensively updated edition of Calling the Horses is a very remarkable book by a very remarkable man.
Paperback.