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A HORSERACING THRILLER-NOVELLA (20,000 words).
Leading racehorse trainer Francis Barrow is the ringmaster of a high-stakes gambling syndicate, that rigs “jockeys’ races” to guarantee winners for his wealthy backers. When his assistant, Min Barker accidentally records Barrow’s private plot with biddable owner, Maurice Sheepshanks, he and his former City colleague, the affable and cultivated Crab, are drawn into the underworld of ruthless owners and gamblers in which only the fittest survive, and the consequences for those who usurp the work of the syndicate, can end careers and perhaps even, lives.
As Barrow juggles cocky and vicious jockeys, unscrupulous backers, and a business which pivots on the support of the capricious Lady Constance, his ironclad plan begins to crack under unforeseen disruptions, skittish horses, maverick jockeys, and his once too often ill-treated assistant.
From the paddocks of sleepy Salisbury to the tension of Epsom Downs, this acutely observed novella, transports you to the lived-in experience of modern flat racing, immersing you in a world in which every stride is calculated, every soul a potential saboteur. Fast-paced and darkly comic, THE FIX IS IN tells you everything you didn’t want to know about contemporary horse racing in the UK.
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