Favourite autobiography

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Can anyone reccomend a good autobiography? There seem to be so many now.

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Bob Champions - very old but worth reading if you can get it and Jenny Pitmans was a great insight - you can see where her novels came from!
 
Lucinda Green's were good, and I'm half way through William Fox-Pitt's and enjoying it - it's a very horsey read iykwim, light on gossip, heavy on horse trials LOL.
I seem to recall from days of yore Pat Smythe's was brilliant (you at the back -yes, you, the one who said 'Who the hell was he?' you can stay in at break for your cheek) And Marion Mould's about Stroller, if you're into antiques.
 
i want to read Toddy's!

i thought Pippa Funnell's was excellent - but she used to be my fave rider (i have a few now)

i am half way though 2 different autobiographys now -
William Fox-Pitt's and Zara Phillips'
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does lucinda green have an autobiography? would love to read it if she does
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Lucinda Green wrote "Up up and Away" about Be Fair and "Four Square" about some other horses. You might have to hunt around for them - think they are out of print. I found them in a secondhand shop. Up up and Away is very good and there's that photo of her jumping the scariest fence ever at Kiev.
 
Another oldie - 'Ginny' -Virginia Holgate/Leng's autobiography is a good read. It is probably hard to get now though as it was published in the 1980's.
 
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