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Masterly account of all-time great forever in Archer's shadow

The Demon - The Life of George Fordham by Michael Tanner
£15.95 (paperback), published by AuthorHouse – authorhouse.co.uk

Posterity has decided that Fred Archer was the greatest jockey of the 19th century – the most successful, the most charismatic, the most famous, the most celebrated.

Yet posterity can be wrong, and George Fordham's claims to supremacy are convincingly argued in Michael Tanner's excellent new 400-page biography of this underappreciated paragon.

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