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'No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.' Winston Churchill, My Early Life From childhood ponies to the racehorses who brightened his old age, Winston Churchill loved horses with a passion. He played polo until well into his fifties and rode to hounds in his seventies; he competed in Army point-to-points at Sandhurst; when serving in the cavalry he took part in the charge at Omdurman in 1898; and his enthusiasm for racing and breeding, according to his daughter Mary Soames, 'gave him enormous pleasure and interest in his declining years'. But this story of Churchill and horses is more than just a fascinating angle on the great statesman's personality over nearly a century of his life. It is a chronicle of the changing relationship between horses and human society.

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SEAN MAGEE is the author of many books, including the official history of Ascot racecourse (2002), Lester's Derbys (2004), Arkle: The story of the world s greatest steeplechaser and The Irish Derby.

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