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                                        John Magnier is the billionaire owner of                                                    Coolmore Stud in Ireland and friend of                                                      England's Queen Elizabeth. He is lauded                                                    around the world for his brilliant race                                                        horses and stallions. This is the story of life                                              inside Coolmore with those horses and its                                                people. Full of joy but heartbreakingly sad.

It is 40 years since Magnier, Vincent O'Brien and Robert 

Sangster, with the help of a little horse from Canada, set about revolutionising the bloodstock world.  We follow the journey as millions of dollars were risked on untried yearlings in the hope they would become champion racehorses and then champion stallions; turning water into wine and and an Irish farmer into a fabulously wealthy tycoon.     

   The author takes you behind the scenes to capture the magic of life being created and cared for inside Magnier's principal foaling barn, where he worked for seven years, as brilliant racehorses like Gleneagles, Ruler Of The World, Adelaide, Homecoming Queen, Tapestry, Highland Reel, Minding, Found and Churchill drew their first breath.  

   The blood, sweat and tears of the people who work with the horses combine with thirty pages of stunning photographs to

leave never-to-be-forgotten images of life inside the world famous Coolmore Stud in County Tipperary.