About the Author

Howard Wright has been involved in writing about the many facets of thoroughbred racing for almost 20 years, since he joined the Timeform Organisation as a teenager and edited 'The Racing Week'. He spent 11 years as a daily racing correspondent with the Sheffield Morning Telegraph in his native Yorkshire, and has been a member of the Daily Telegraph racing staff in London since March 1980. He has written for all the leading racing and thoroughbred publications in Britain, beginning a weekly comment column in the Racehorse in 1971, and is a regular contributor to Pacemaker International and the European Racehorse.