Publisher's Synopsis
A trainer loses his licence; a jockey is warned off: all in a day's work for the senior steward of the Jockey Club, but when the blackmailing starts, when a most influential corpse is found at Newbury races, a cloud of corruption, suspicion and violence threatens to overwhelm the National Hunt season. James Thackeray, racing journalist and amateur jockey, had every reason to turn detective - he'd found the body. It was only a matter of time before the villains found him...and saddling up for the Grand National might be the last thing he ever did.
