Former racing correspondent Colin Mackenzie’s memoir shines a light on a bygone age of journalism and race reporting.
A few weeks ago I was bemoaning the fact that one knock-on effect of the pandemic was a lack of racing books this Christmas but Colin Mackenzie who, for the last 20 years of his career as a journalist was racing correspondent of The Daily Mail, has come to the rescue.
It has always been something of tradition that retired, long-serving racing journalists publish a memoir about their careers and some of the stories behind the stories.
Mackenzie’s is up there with the best not least because it is well written in an easy style and well edited (not always a given) and, always a bonus, it is not just about racing…