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Roger Mortimer (racing)

Major Roger Francis Mortimer, was an English horse-racing correspondent, Coldstream Guards officer, prisoner of war, and author.

Books
• ''Dearest Jane ...: My Father's Life and Letters, by Roger Mortimer and Jane Torday, Constable, 2014 (lacks an index and list of dramatis personae'' unlike her siblings' earlier volumes); • Dear Lumpy by Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer, Constable & Robinson, 2013; • Dear Lupin: Letters To A Wayward Son, by Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer, Constable & Robinson, 2012. Hardback reached No 2 on The Sunday Times Bestseller list and sold in excess of 40,000 copies. Dear Lupin was BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week'. Sold over 120,000 copies in all formats.); • The History of the Derby Stakes,Cassell (publisher) 1962 updated edition Michael Joseph, London, 1972; • The Jockey Club, Cassell, London, 1958; • Anthony Mildmay, MacGibbon & Kee, 1956; • Twenty Great Horses, Cassell / Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1967; • Twenty Great Horses of the British Turf, A. S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick, NJ., 1968; • The Flat: Flat racing in Britain since 1939, Allen and Unwin, 1979; • Biographical Encyclopaedia of British Flat Racing, (Roger Mortimer, Richard Onslow, Peter Willet), MacDonald & Janes Ltd./ TBS The Book Service Ltd, London, 1978; • Encyclopaedia of Flat Racing, Howard Wright & Roger Mortimer, Robert Hale, 1971 & 1986; • Derby 200. The Official Story of the Blue Riband of the Turf, Michael Seth-Smith & Roger Mortimer, Guinness Superlatives, London, 1979. • The Epsom Derby , Roger Mortimer with Tim Neligan , Michael Joseph , 1984. ==External==
External
• The Spectator's review of Jane Torday's book • Review in The Guardian • Telegraph review • John Karter: 'Mortimer: never at a loss for words', Mortimer's obituary in The Sunday Times, 1 December 1991 ==References==
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