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Great Horse Racing Mysteries delves deeply into some of the sport’s most captivating enigmas, such as the baffling death by poisoning of Phar Lap, the renowned Australian champion; the shocking shooting of William Woodward by his wife Ann, proud owners of the celebrated horse Nashua; the controversial disqualification of the 1960 Derby winner, Dancer’s Image (was he illicitly drugged?); the notorious theft and subsequent vanishing of Shergar in 1983, arguably Europe’s most recognized racehorse and stud; and the scandal-ridden financial meltdown of Calumet Farm following the mercy killing of Alydar, one of the world’s most prolific sires. McEvoy undertook a meticulous investigation into several unresolved mysteries of the racing world—ranging from murder and suicide to arson and fraud—and brings to light some of horse racing’s most unusual and bewitching stories.