First Edition hardcover in red cloth covered boards with bumped tips and spine ends. Fep removed, tape marks on pastedowns, not exlib. Good solid reading copy with some marks on the cloth. Internally, all is well 348pp are crisp and clean. A tense, impassioned novel, the story of Dixie, a novice jockey from the South, and the fevered whirl of politics and money-lust into which he is thrown when he steps into the world of the racetrack. Young and in love, Dixie is unaware of the deadly rivalries and political feuds raging about him until he is enlightened by Irish Gallagher, an ex-jockey turned trainer.