Table of Contents
Author's Note 9
Acknowledgements 12
Foreword Jim Dreaper 15
Chapter 1 'He Doesn't Look Like A Racehorse' 17
Chapter 2 Tom Dreaper-The Quiet Genius 24
Chapter 3 'He Was So Intelligent' 38
Chapter 4 Transforming the Duke 47
Chapter 5 'He Looks Like a Newly-Shorn Sheep' 52
Chapter 6 'The Big Horse' and Arkle Begin Their Careers 62
Chapter 7 'I Hear the Horse of the Century is Going to Run' 75
Chapter 8 The Complete Racehorse 88
Chapter 9 England v Ireland - An Epic Gold Cup 95
Chapter 10 Lumps of Weight and A Cheshire 'Holiday' 1964-1965 105
Chapter 11 Faster Than A Train 113
Chapter 12 Last Race - Stunned Silence 1966 125
Chapter 13 Stealing the Show 135
Chapter 14 'Arkle is Dead' 140
Chapter 15 Memorabilia 149
Chapter 16 Arkle in Ashbourne 158
Chapter 17 The Arkle Chases - Leopardstown and Cheltenham 165
Chapter 18 Remembering Arkle 172
Chapter 19 Would-be Arkles 179
Appendix I The Pedigrees of the Two Arkles 193
Appendix II Worldwide Naming Protocol 196
Appendix III Arkle's Racing Record 199
Bibliography 205
