 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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MIRACLE OF CARTE DIAMOND; INTERVIEW Racing's toughest cookie has cheated death three times to take his place in the Northumberland Plate. Paul Haigh learns more of his remarkable life story from trainer Brian Ellison and wife Claire, who is putting it all into print.(Sports)
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Byline: Paul Haigh
FACT, according to the cliche, is often stranger than fiction.
That's a serious understatement. Fiction writers are necessarily constricted by the need for plausibility. Fact doesn't have to worry about suspension of disbelief.
It can go off in any direction. Like a scalded cat, or a runaway horse.
That's the only worry about the literary task Claire Ellison has set herself. She's producing a novel based on the life of the most extraordinary horse her husband Brian has ever trained, perhaps the most extraordinary anyone's ever trained.
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