The sport of kings : kinship, class, and thoroughbred breeding in Newmarket / Rebecca Cassidy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassidy, Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thoroughbred horse--Breeding--England--Newmarket (Suffolk).

Thoroughbred horse.

Race horses--Breeding--England--Newmarket (Suffolk).

Race horses.

Horse racing--England--Newmarket (Suffolk).

Horse racing.

Horse industry--England--Newmarket (Suffolk).

Horse industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding, and pursues the idea that in making statements about animals, we reveal something of ourselves. It explains the action that takes place on racecourses, in training yards, on studs and at bloodstock auctions. It analyses the consumption of racing through betting on the racecourse and in betting shops, and it proffers an insightful description of a unique class system: that of the humans and animals involved in the production of British flat racing.

Contents:

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Headquarters 3. Keeping it in the family 4. At the races 5. Having a flutter 6. Going once, going twice .. 7. One of the lads 8. Doing it for Daddy 9. Blood will tell 10. Conclusions List of references Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13173-1

0-511-17761-5

0-511-04474-7

0-521-80877-4

9786610436392

0-511-61376-8

0-511-30510-9

0-511-14801-1

1-280-43639-5

OCLC:

475916863