How the track works
The incredible gift edition of «How the Hypodrome works» is dedicated to the history and internal device of the Central Moscow Ippodrome. Includes detailed texts and an unconventional visual series that transmits the atmosphere of horse sports.
The book has a clear system of sections and looks at each component of the track, both visually and functionally, opening up a fundamentally new view of the many interesting facts, interesting and sometimes strange stories, amazing coincidences, legends and speculations surrounding the track and to this day.
STRUCTURE Year / fact
The reader will not only learn the historical details of the development of the Moscow track from 1737 to 1991, but will also be able to sink into the world of races and races. The structure of the book includes chapters on great horses distinguished in competitions, professional terminology of athletes, as well as landmark events in the history of CMI as a building and as an important cultural institution.
The racetrack world has a complex but fascinating structure, its unique atmosphere, and amazing stories, which are now well known only in a narrow circle, are worthy of study and will be interesting even to those who were not interested in horse sports until the book was opened. The 180-year-old meeting of famous and semi-forgotten, funny and sad, but always imagining stories and facts gathered in a single publication forms a common image of the Central Moscow Ippodrome.