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'She enjoyed the sport, the chat and the craic' - remembering a novelist and TV scriptwriter who had a passion for racing
David Carr on the late author and racehorse owner Charlotte Bingham
David CarrReporter
Charlotte Bingham: "She was absolutely lovely"
Charlotte Bingham, the successful author and television scriptwriter who died last month at the age of 83, was also an owner and has been remembered as "absolutely lovely" by one of the men who trained winners for her.
Bingham made her name through dozens of romantic novels, as well as the dramas and screen comedies, including hits such as No, Honestly and Robin's Nest, which she wrote with husband Terence Brady.
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more inRacing Lives
- 'Two of the sales circuit's best-loved participants' - Sir Mark Prescott on the loss of a pair of dear friends from the bloodstock world
- 'They don't make them like him any more' - West Country legend Grant Cann mourned
- 'He was my dad, but he was also my best friend and he made me who I am in the horse world'
- 'Like all powerful businessmen, he liked to be in the winner's enclosure - and that's the type of owner any trainer wants!'
- 'An astute judge and an excellent investigative journalist' - fond recollections of John Garnsey of the Daily Express