A man doesn’t publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticking out of his leg, and his rides over for the...

As an amateur jockey, Roland Britten was lucky: as an accountant he was zealous. He knew he was on the hate-list of several fraudsters, but never thought pen-pushers got kidnapped. Not from a...

Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He’d done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England’s race courses he...

It's the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins. Which is just what a vicious gang of horse dealers decides to do when...

Derek Franklin is an injured jockey. The last fence at Cheltenham has left him on crutches. But his brother’s death means even bigger trouble. He inherits a jewellery business, a mistress –...

Tim Ekaterin's bank is about to invest in a œ5million stallion called Sandcastle. But racing is riddled with all kinds of Tim Ekaterin’s merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure...

John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist - preferably without starving to death. But when cold and hunger set in, Kendall...

From international bestselling author Dick Francis and his son Felix comes a gripping new racing thriller. Captain Thomas Forsyth’s tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he’s badly...

A royally connected candidate is going for gold at the Moscow Olympic Games. But a mysterious ‘Aloysha’ has threatened to turn it into an international incident. Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew...

Computer whizz kid Peter Keithley, asked to transfer a betting system onto computer tape, dies shortly afterwards. An old friend of his, Jonathan Derry, finds himself in possession of the tapes...

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dick Francis' pacey thriller starring Nigel Havers. At the annual party celebrating the success of the racing season, everything is running well to form until a...

For millionaire jockey Alan York, winning is a bonus. For Joe Nantwich, victory means no cushy backhanders. And for Bill Davidson, front-running on strongly fancied Admiral, triumph is an...

When a sick friend asks Edward Lincoln to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he agrees to help out. But it is impossible for him to go about the task quietly and...

Gene Hawkins, investigator by trade, was expert at arranging events so that they appeared accidental to all involved. Therefore, when he himself witnessed an 'accident' his curiosity flared up...

No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards’ Enquiry. Kelly Hughes’ career looks doomed. He knows he’s been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous....