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Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1967. hardcover, 5¼" x 8", with dust jacket. Jacket edges have scuffing (after forty years). VERY GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket. Edgar Britt is one of the most successful and widelty-travelled of all Australian jockeys. In a career spanning thirty years he rode with great success in Australia, America, India and the United Kingdom, and competed with distinction against the most celebrated riders in the world. From life as a humble apprentice he became first rider to a succession of Indian maharajas and in England he rode for the Royal family. Here he tells of horses and personalities with enlightening objectivity and humour, revealing the strength and weaknesses of famous owners, riders and trainers and separating their genius from their luck and foresight from superstition.