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Evocative selection details an unparalleled jumping career

Ben Hutton enjoys a new collection of articles covering Sprinter Sacre's glittering career

Sprinter Sacre: The Impossible Dream
Edited by Brough Scott
£20, published by Racing Post Books – shop1.racingpost.com

“We all admire those who conquer adversity, the ones with the courage to come in from the cold.”

So wrote Alastair Down after Sprinter Sacre's redemptive win in the Shloer Chase at Cheltenham in November 2015, just one example of the evocative manner in which Down and his colleagues have told the story of Nick Henderson's star in the Racing Post over the last half-dozen years or so.

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