Horses & Husbands, The Memoirs of Etti Plesch (first edition, 2007)

This copy signed and dedciated by the editor, Hugo Vickers

Author

Etti Plesch, edited by Hugo Vickers

Publisher

Dovecote Press, Wimborne Minster, 2007

Horses & Husbands, The Memoirs of Etti Plesch (first edition, 2007)

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 205pp.

Signed and warmly dedicated by Hugo Vickers to the title page.

When Etti Plesch died in April 2003, her obituary in The Times stated: 'Lately she had all but completed her memoirs, which were awaited with some trepidation in international society.' These memoirs are now being published.

Etti Plesch earned a place in The Guinness Book of Records as the only woman owner to have won the Derby twice, with Psidium in 1961 and Henbit in 1980. What made Etti a legendary lady of the Turf was her 1970 victory in the Arc de Triomphe, when Sassafras beat Charles Engelhard's Nijinsky, ending his amazing run of 11 classic wins in a row.

Her own life was no less adventurous and extraordinary. By the age of 40, she had married six husbands, divorcing five of them, and losing two of them to the same woman. Finally she married a husband who could buy her a mare that could – and did – sire a Derby winner.