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Jack Doyle, past advertising man, amateur boxer, and Chicago racetrack publicist, undertakes a fresh job in the wonderful world of Thoroughbred horse racing: jockey agent. His client is Mickey Sheehan, a seventeenyearold female riding phenomenon from Ireland, who has made a decision to try her luck in the States. She and Doyle verify an effective team, until someone secretly starts administering dangerous illegitimate medications to horses.In his pursuit to identify at fault, the shrewd, irreverent, and always opinionated Doyle gets help from his friends Moe Kellman, furrier to the Mob; trainer Ralph Tenuta, himself the prospective of the blackmailer; and young vet Ingrid McGuire, a greatly accomplished horse communicator. In the mean time, Jack port and Moe become coowners of the promising, bargainpriced horses named Plotkin, who provides several thrills, not absolutely all of them welcome. Then as Plotkin is got into in a huge competition, the milliondollar Heartland Downs Futurity, the sibling rivalry between Mickey and her occasionally racemanipulating brother Kieran, one of Ireland's top jockeys, flares up and involves a climax with Mickey aboard Plotkin.From Chicago's Heartland Downs racetrack to New York's famed Saratoga Contest Course, Doyle is detoured to Mob chieftain Fifi Bonadio's lavish yacht in Chicago's Belmont Harbor. Will the favour he agrees to do for Fifi get him killed, or might it be his persistent thrust for answers to the horses doping?As an novice investigator in the wonderful world of American racing, Doyle may also be mistaken but always dogged in his seek out answers. The problems he faces in wanting to halt the horses drugging and the menace to Tenuta's life will be the most difficult of his brilliant career.
