First published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2009

Prologue -- The chairman -- The bawd -- The gambler -- The duke -- The meat salesman -- The young thoroughbred -- Coup de Foudre -- The rest nowhere -- 1-100 Eclipse -- The first lady abbess -- The stallion -- The most glorious spectacle -- Cross and jostle -- An example to the turf -- The 14lb heart -- The litigant -- The declince of the jontleman -- Artists' models -- Eclipse's legacy : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Eclipse's legacy : the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The skeleton -- Appendix 1 : Eclipse's racing career -- Appendix 2 : Eclipse's pedigree -- Appendix 3 : The O'Kelly family -- Appendix 4 : Racing terms, historical and contemporary

Traces the story of the champion whose descendants have included Secretariat, Barbaro, and all but three of the past half-century's Kentucky Derby winners, offering insight into the role played by owner, racing outcast, and gambler Dennis O'Kelly