a great read for cheltenham or on the train home.

​There is a reason why I am uploading twice in one day. If you are interested, it is because in writing my previous upload, my computer mysteriously, and it has never before pulled this particular stunt, deleted all but the first page when I pushed copy, forcing me to rewrite the majority of it again. Obviously the first effort was superior. I need to upload again to see if the problem reoccurs as I might have been the problem all along. Computers really are, though, the devil’s own work!
I have recently bought a tablet and there is no love lost between it and me, I can assure you. To get to the Racing Post app is the passive equivalent of wrestling a crocodile. 
‘The Fakenham Favourite’ by Aaron Gransby’ is a delight. It is a book of less than 100-pages, with plenty of photographs and an easy style of writing. This is the kind of book I admire and treasure having a copy as part of my racing library.
With little effort the reader can get this book knocked-off in one sitting, if you have a mind to. I like to read a chapter at any one sitting, perhaps two if the chapters are as short as in ‘The Fakenham Favourite.
What I enjoyed about this book is that I learned stuff and the narrative sparked memories. The book has a simple story-line, it is a trot through the racing experiences of Alan and Pat Blackmore, unrelated to the famous Blackmore, and the horses they trained to some success. The standout and the eponymous equine hero of the book, the Fakenham favourite, is Cool Roxy, eleven-times a winner around Norfolk’s only racecourse.
As I do not like to give away story-lines of racing books I buy and read, especially a brand new, hot off the shelves, book, I will say very little about what you can expect, except there is tragedy in the Blackmore story.
The book is priced at £14. 99. It is published by Gerard Books and I (eventually) got my copy from Foyles, though I expect and hope it will be on sale at Cheltenham next week.
It is one of those books that is nice to handle, if you know what I mean. Tactile. A book you would be loathed to accidentally tear the cover or spill tea over.