This book was published in 1966 and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, as I do pretty much all of the Dick Francis novels. I miss this yearly treat.Lord Henry Grey decides to take a change of career and he switches to his skills of being a pilot and combines this with his love of horses (he was an amateur jockey) to become a transporter of race horses and brood mares. He hopes that this will make him feel better towards life, get him out the rut he is in and enable him to see a bit of the world too.
The pressure is on Henry when he discovers that his planes are carrying more than horses and his employer does not want him to know. The mystery is also interspersed with a bit of romance with the lovely Gabriella.
A solid 8/10 for me.
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