Slated to ride his dream horse, Ibn Saud, in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, jockey and horse trainer's son Nick Storr is shocked when his father fires him and the jockey who takes his place throws the race
This was very much like a Dick Francis book, except the hero of the piece isn't a fine upstanding young man with an un-quivering moral compass. And the villains of the piece took awhile to resolve because Nick is on track to become one of them.
I quite enjoyed it as about all else, Nick loved the horses and I wanted to love him for that alone.