![]() ![]() The trainer and his assistant had dinner there recently as guests of the restaurant owner. One of the owners who has several horses with the trainer also owns a restaurant. A lot of important guests have gathered for the event, which is being held in a large tent on the grounds of the trainer's home.Īs the party gets under way, the trainer's principal assistant approaches Beach with a problem. On a Sunday afternoon, he's catering the liquor for a party thrown by a successful horse trainer. He owns a small shop and has spent the last six months grieving for his wife who built up the shop with him and then died of an aneurysm while six months pregnant.īeach is simply going through the motions of living, opening his store, dealing with customers and occasionally supplying the liquor for various parties. Like a few of the others in the series, this one is only loosely set in the world of horseracing, and the protagonist, Tony Beach, is not a jockey but rather a wine merchant. ![]() This is one of the better novels from Dick Francis. ![]()
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