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Tim Cox’s Great Library

With more than 18,000 references and therefore as many books and documents devoted exclusively to racing and thoroughbreds collected over forty years, Tim Cox could appear to be eccentric, bulimic, insane. And yet, it was a completely different man, discreet, affable, sensitive, measured, who received us in his small mansion in Dorking (Surrey) which he […]

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The Chronicles of the Baron de Vaux

A polygraph of the world, Baron de Vaux (1843-1915) published many beautifully illustrated works that are a collector’s delight. This former cavalry officer served under General l’Hotte before becoming a journalist and sports writer. Mennessier reminds us that “in 1860 he voluntarily enlisted in the Sixth Regiment of Lancers, in 1863 he passed to Saumur […]