Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Fieldwork in Newmarket -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- A brief and selective history of flat racing in Newmarket -- Making connections -- Nature in Newmarket -- Summary -- NOTES -- 2 Headquarters -- Introduction -- Newmarket's history -- Contemporary Newmarket -- Landscape -- Language and communication -- Appearance and embodiment or 'the body for the job' (Bourdieu 1984: 191) -- Dress -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 3 Keeping it in the family -- Introduction -- A 'real' Newmarket family -- Marriage -- Death -- Claiming a connection to Newmarket -- Making connections -- Reactions to outsiders -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 4 At the races -- Introduction -- Inside the racecourse, the 1997 Epsom Derby -- Enclosure: inside:outside -- Within the inner circle -- The trainer -- The owner -- The jockeys -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 5 Having a flutter -- Introduction -- The current relationship between horseracing and betting -- The historical relationship between bookmaking and horseracing -- The betting shop -- The betting ring -- 'Getting on' at the racecourse -- Mugs -- The professional -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 6 Going once, going twice… -- Introduction -- Tattersalls auction ring -- The sales -- The yearling inspection -- The bloodstock agent -- Inside the ring -- The relationship between pedigree and ability -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 7 One of the lads -- Introduction -- Being a lad in Newmarket -- 'A skewed and malicious passion' (Wacquant 1995a: 523) -- Learning the hard way -- The natural -- The British Racing School -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 8 Doing it for Daddy -- Introduction -- Human-animal relations -- Studwork -- The breeding shed: doing it for Daddy -- The odd couple -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 9 Blood will tell -- Introduction -- The history of racehorse pedigrees.

Nature vs nurture -- Ideas of heredity in racehorse breeding -- Representing pedigrees - the sales catalogue -- Phenotypic fetishism -- Pedigree determines price -- From eighteenth-century Irish ostlers to the cloning of Cigar -- Artificial insemination (AI) -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 10 Conclusions -- Introduction -- Inequality -- Risk -- Denaturalising Newmarket, denaturalising class? -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- References -- Index.