Henderson’s Heroes: The Story of an Unbelievable Season

Henderson’s Heroes is a beautifully illustrated book written in part by the champion trainer, Nicky Henderson, and celebrates the long and spectacularly successful career of one of the great jumps trainers through the prism of the 2012-13 season. Horses trained by Henderson won a stream of major races that saw him crowned champion trainer for the first time in 26 years His early life and career is recounted in an introductory chapter. The champion trainer then takes us through the season as it happened, with photographs, articles, linking pieces and captions. Packed with fascinating insights into Henderson’s training methods and mining the unique reporting and photographic resources of the Racing Post, Henderson’s Heroes is a wonderful record of his annus mirabilis.