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Winston Churchill's Racehorses - Rupert Collens Fiction remains as elusive as everChurchill loved horses, army, hunters and polo ponies. This book investigates his less appreciated but highly successful ownership of racehorses from 1949 when his first runner, Colonist II, won at Salisbury in September, until his last in October 1964 at Newmarket when Honeycomb was unplaced. Churchill died three months later. Although Churchill only owned 40 horses, they competed in 394 flat and 30 National Hunt races, of which they won 70 on the