The problem you may find with the Favourite Racehorses book is that many (the majority) of the horses voted for are jumpers. Arkle is at #1 (incidentally would have won a vote for best racehorse as well!), ahead of Desert Orchid and Red Rum.
It's still a very good read, particularly if you want to learn more about the wonderful world of jumping!
Other than that there isn't much I can think of. We don't do anything approximal at Timeform. I did have an excellent book by the great racing historians John Randall and Tony Morris - called something simple like Horse Racing, can't quite remember - but that was printed about 15 years ago. Don't know if there have been any revised editions since, but well worth looking into.
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"Pound for pound the greatest sportsman Britain has ever produced." John Francome on A. P. McCoy.
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