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 in a horse box at Newbury races, a cloud of corruption, suspicion and violence threatens to overwhelm the National Hunt season. James Thackeray, racing journalist, erratic tipster, amateur jockey, had every reason to turn detective. He'd found the body. But it was only a matter of time before the villains found him. Saddling up for the Grand National might just be the last thing he ever did...
- ISBN10 0061042927
- ISBN13 9780061042928
- Publish Date 7 August 1996 (first published 25 September 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperPrism
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English