Shortlisted for ‘The Energise Sport Irish Sports Book of the Year 2010’ at the Irish Book Awards. This is a public ballot and voting is open until midnight on 21st November. To cast your vote click here.
In addition to this, Ruby is on the longlist for the ‘William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2010’. if you want to see him on the shortlist then click here and vote for this terrific autobiography by the 18th November. If he gets on the shortlist, the votes then carry over but you can continue to vote until 28th November.
Ruby Walsh is a phenomenon. The only jockey to have won all four of the home Grand Nationals, Ruby's racing life is the stuff of dreams. A charming, much-loved sports personality throughout Ireland and Great Britain, Ruby writes in detail for the first time about a career of remarkable success. Ruby's fantastic story will attract a large spectrum of readers, from those who have only a passing interest in the sport to those who follow all his races.
It is a searingly honest and compelling autobiography, charting the rise and rise of an immensely talented and popular force in the world of sport.
The narrative moves at an impressive pace from his sport-enthused youth in County Kildare, where he showed enormous talent from an early age, to his incredible Grand National win at Aintree on Papillion in 2000 (at the age of twenty). It was Ruby's first attempt, on a horse trained by his father, and achieved just after suffering the first really serious injury of his career. He has ridden over 1,400 winners to date, including more than a thousand Irish victories and the Irish jump jockey's title on seven occasions.
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The narrative moves at an impressive pace from his sport-enthused youth in County Kildare, where he showed enormous talent from an early age, to his incredible Grand National win at Aintree on Papillion in 2000 (at the age of twenty). It was Ruby's first attempt, on a horse trained by his father, and achieved just after suffering the first really serious injury of his career.
Ruby : The Autobiography features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Sports, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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Ruby : The Autobiography was written by Ruby Walsh and published by Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
