Yeah, he was a jockey and there is always a horse around somewhere, but the books are often only peripherally about racing.
[posted to Goodreads in 2010 after Dick Francis died] I’ve been rereading all the Dick Francis on the shelf in the Homer Public Library. This one is still my favorite. Painter Alexander Kinloch, nephew of a Scottish earl, is summoned from his aerie in Scotland by his mother to tend to his step-father, whose prosperous…
