Horsetrader

Robert Sangster and the Rise and Fall of the Sport of Kings

Patrick Robinson, Nick Robinson

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HarperCollins
25 September 2025

Horse racing

During the boom years of the 1980s, the massed oil wealth of the princes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia were pitted against British millionaire Robert Sangster in a battle for control of one of the world’s rarest, most precious and most unpredictable commodities: top-pedigree thoroughbred racehorses.

From the Jockey Club to Kentucky, from Royal Ascot to Belmont Park, high society and new money celebrated a horsebreeders’ bonanza as hundreds of millions of dollars were waged in the ultimate racing gamble. Horsetrader is the thrilling, compulsive story of the rise and spectacular crash of the Sport of Kings.

Robert Sangster was the man responsible for the boom. Together with Irishmen Vincent O’Brien, the world’s finest trainer, and stallion master John Magnier, Sangster undertook the revolutionary policy of buying ‘baby’ stallions – the world’s most expensive yearlings. And the man who could win at this game, they decided, was the man who bought them all. They sent prices through the roof in bidding wars fought with breathtaking daring. Top stallions became worth three times their weight in gold – the breeding rights to them became a licence to print money.

This book traces the gripping story of how Sangster and his little band of Irish horsemen ransacked the world’s most prestigious bloodstock auction, the Keeneland Sales in Kentucky. It witnesses too the terrible crash – the bankruptcies and the ruined thoroughbred farms. Written with the full co-operation of Sangster himself, Horsetrader is the inside track on an awesome bid to corner the thoroughbred market.

By: Patrick Robinson, Nick Robinson
Imprint: HarperCollins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780008782061
ISBN 10: 0008782067
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 25 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nick is the BBC's Political Editor and is frequently to be heard commenting on current political events on Radio 4’s Today programme and others, or seen reporting on BBC TV News. Election time and political crises find him on air every day and he has also presented programmes including Westminster Live, Weekend Breakfast and Newsnight. Patrick Robinson was born in Kent, England. He has worked as a journalist and in publishing, and is the bestselling author of a number of Kilo Class, Nimitz Class, H.M.S. Unseen, U.S.S. Seawolf and The Shark Mutiny, all naval submarine thrillers. He lives in Ireland and Cape Cod.

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Robert Sangster and the Rise and Fall of the Sport of Kings

Patrick Robinson, Nick Robinson

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