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    The Sport of Kings : Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511148019
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (200 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.483
    Keywords: Social classes ; Social classes ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 'Behind the scenes' description of British flat racing based on Cassidy's experiences working in Newmarket.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Fieldwork in Newmarket -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- A brief and selective history of flat racing in Newmarket -- Making connections -- Nature in Newmarket -- Summary -- NOTES -- 2 Headquarters -- Introduction -- Newmarket's history -- Contemporary Newmarket -- Landscape -- Language and communication -- Appearance and embodiment or 'the body for the job' (Bourdieu 1984: 191) -- Dress -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 3 Keeping it in the family -- Introduction -- A 'real' Newmarket family -- Marriage -- Death -- Claiming a connection to Newmarket -- Making connections -- Reactions to outsiders -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 4 At the races -- Introduction -- Inside the racecourse, the 1997 Epsom Derby -- Enclosure: inside:outside -- Within the inner circle -- The trainer -- The owner -- The jockeys -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 5 Having a flutter -- Introduction -- The current relationship between horseracing and betting -- The historical relationship between bookmaking and horseracing -- The betting shop -- The betting ring -- 'Getting on' at the racecourse -- Mugs -- The professional -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 6 Going once, going twice… -- Introduction -- Tattersalls auction ring -- The sales -- The yearling inspection -- The bloodstock agent -- Inside the ring -- The relationship between pedigree and ability -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 7 One of the lads -- Introduction -- Being a lad in Newmarket -- 'A skewed and malicious passion' (Wacquant 1995a: 523) -- Learning the hard way -- The natural -- The British Racing School -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 8 Doing it for Daddy -- Introduction -- Human-animal relations -- Studwork -- The breeding shed: doing it for Daddy -- The odd couple -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 9 Blood will tell -- Introduction -- The history of racehorse pedigrees.
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    The sport of kings : kinship, class, and thorougbred breeding in Newmarket (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0521808774
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 186 p. , map : 24 cm
    DDC: 636.1322094264
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    LB 61190
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Pferderennen ; Pferdezucht ; Ethnologie ; Newmarket ; Newmarket ; Pferderennen ; Anthropologie ; Newmarket ; Pferdezucht ; Anthropologie ; Newmarket ; Pferderennen ; Ethnologie
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-182)
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    The sport of kings : kinship, class, and thoroughbred breeding in Newmarket (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511613760
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 636.1/322/094264
    RVK:
    LB 61190
    Keywords: Thoroughbred horse / Breeding / England / Newmarket (Suffolk) ; Race horses / Breeding / England / Newmarket (Suffolk) ; Horse racing / England / Newmarket (Suffolk) ; Horse industry / England / Newmarket (Suffolk) ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Pferdezucht ; Pferderennen ; Newmarket ; Newmarket ; Pferderennen ; Ethnologie ; Newmarket ; Pferdezucht ; Anthropologie ; Newmarket ; Pferderennen ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: 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
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511613760
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