Balding, Clare My Animals and Other Family ISBN 13: 9781594205620

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“I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learned through animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine.”

Clare Balding grew up in an unusual household. Her father a champion horse trainer, they shared their lives with more than one hundred thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals, and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of dogs, on a sprawling estate in the Hampshire Downs. As a child, Clare happily rode the legendary racehorse Mill Reef and received her first pony, Valkyrie, as a gift from Her Majesty the Queen of England.

But Clare ranked low in the family pecking order—as a girl, she was decidedly below her younger brother, and both of them were certainly below the horses. Left to her own devices, she had to learn life’s toughest lessons through the animals, and through her adventures in the stables and the surrounding idyllic English countryside.

From her struggles at boarding school to her triumphs as an amateur jockey and event rider, Clare weaves her own coming-of-age story through portraits of the beloved horses and dogs, from the protective Candy to the unruly Frank, who were her earliest friends.

The running family joke was that “women ain’t people.” Clare has to prove them wrong, to make her voice heard—but first she had to make sure she had something to say. My Animals and Other Family is a witty, brave, and moving account of stumbling—often literally—into one’s true self.

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CLARE BALDING is an award-winning broadcaster and writer.  At the London Olympics of 2012 she was proclaimed a “national treasure'” and acclaimed as the gold medal winning presenter of the Games. She became the face of the BBC’s horse racing coverage in 1998, and now works across a wide range of sports for television and radio. She has been a lead TV presenter for the Olympics, Paralympics, Winter Olympics and Commonwealth Games. For more than twelve years, she has hiked across the British countryside for the BBC radio series Ramblings. In 2012 she was awarded Achievement of the Year at the Women in Film and TV Awards, the Media Award at the Red Hot Women of the Year Awards, was made TV Personality of the Year by Attitude Magazine and won Racing Broadcaster of the Year for the second time.  A British newspaper ran the headline, '”Why Can't Everyone Be Clare Balding?” Clare lives in west London with her partner, Alice, their wayward Tibetan terrier, Archie, and their cat, Itty.  None of them have shown much interest in any of the awards, which is just fine.
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In this exceedingly British memoir that manages to be both eccentric and wise, Balding reflects on growing up where horses were the family business. With a father who is not only a champion horse trainer but a royal trainer to boot, it was impossible to ever consider horses as anything other than the most important thing in their lives. Along with occasional diversions to salute some memorable dogs, Balding writes of her years in the saddle from learning to ride on a docile pony to a confrontation with Princess Anne while racing as a teenager. Her grandmother is the very definition of acerbic (shades of Downton Abbey), her mother channels Louisa Durrell, and her little brother is a more than willing partner in crime. As for her father, Balding makes clear he was the center around which their family orbited, and schedules for racing and training dominated their calendars. Even after she leaves for school, Balding cannot resist his pull and competes at his prescribed jockey weight in search of the big win. In the end, she provides a funny, poignant, thoroughly enjoyable peek into the business of being a Balding and her rollicking coming-of-age. --Colleen Mondor

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  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 1594205620
  • ISBN 13 9781594205620
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