Riding For A Fall

Racing journalist and amateur jockey Rod Hutchinson is tipped off that certain horses are being doped to win. His secretive, early morning studies of the methods of the suspected trainers suggest something far more frightening and horrific than mere dope - and he resolves to expose them.
He discovers that the trainers concerned are in league with an unscrupulous bookmaker who gives them over the odds in return for information that the horses can’t lose. Hutchinson is warned to drop the subject and, when he refuses, he is viciously attacked and threatened with far worse. Still, he continues and this time the villains determine to kill him in spectacular fashion.

Michael Clower, in the words of the Racing Post ‘a legendary racing writer,’ has written widely-acclaimed biographies of champion jockeys Mick Kinane and Charlie Swan, the great hurdler Istabraq and the top Irish trainers (Kings of the Turf). This is his first novel.