Download or read book Racing Post?'s 500 Strangest Racing written by Graham Sharpe and published by Raceform. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the unexpected, the off-beat, the quirky - five hundred strange stories in horseracing's history. It tells about how a jockey lost a race when he insisted on riding in a top hat, what happened when a trainer fitted his short-sighted runner with spectacles, and why a racehorse was sent to jail.