Eclipse: the horse that changed racing history forever

Prologue

The chairman

The bawd

The gambler

The duke

The meat salesman

The young thoroughbred

Coup de Foudre

The rest nowhere

1-100 Eclipse

The first lady abbess

The stallion

The most glorious spectacle

Cross and jostle

An example to the turf

The 14lb heart

The litigant

The decline of the jontleman

Artists' models

Eclipse's legacy : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Eclipse's legacy : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

The skeleton

Appendix 1 : Eclipse's racing career

Appendix 2 : Eclipse's pedigree

Appendix 3 : The O'Kelly family

Appendix 4 : Racing terms, historical and contemporary.