True life racing thriller Doped wins the 25th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
Doped: The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang has won the 2013 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for journalist Jamie Reid. The saga of 1960s turf skullduggery, in which a crooked bookmaker and his glamorous mistress, plus miscellaneous gangsters, bent stable lads and a drug supplier nicknamed 'the Witch Doctor', conspired to nobble high-profile racehorses, won the vote of the judges to clinch the 25th anniversary award from a field that included two other tales of cheating in sport from the worlds of cycling and cricket. Seven Deadly Sins , in which journalist David Walsh recounts his pursuit of the disgraced Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, and Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy , which reveals many truths and destroys some myths about match-fixing in cricket, were both close contenders. A six-strong shortlist also included the straight-talking and grittily honest football autobiography I Am Zlatan Ibrahomivic , the story of an heroic Olympic ro