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Brough Scott’s long-awaited biography of Sir Henry Cecil is published next week. ANTON RIPPON reviews it

The story of Henry Cecil could have been the product of the imagination of a top novelist – decades of success at the very highest level of horse racing followed by years in the professional wilderness, together with deep personal problems including life-threatening illness, and then the most magnificent resurrection with a horse widely regarded as the greatest racer of all time.

No such writer was required to produce such a story.

It is true; it happened. And the man charged with the responsibility of turning such a remarkable tale into a book is SJA member Brough Scott, three times the Sports Feature Writer of the Year, TV presenter, editorial director of the Racing Post and a former jockey who rode at Aintree and Cheltenham.

Scott’s Henry Cecil: Trainer of Genius, to be published on April 12, is up The Triumph of Henry Cecil by Tony Rushmer | Hachette UK TUZ