Dark Horse - Softcover

World-famous jockey-turned-mystery writer Bill Shoemaker is back in the winner's circle with his newest racing mystery that begins and ends with the Triple Crown, the most famous and lucrative trio of races in the Thoroughbred business. . . .

At the Kentucky Derby, amateur sleuth Coley Killebrew discovers that prize race horses confiscated in drug busts are being undervalued and sold at auction. And no less a personage than Jim Carmody, a ruthless billionaire and arch-conservative powermonger, is involved. Carmody blows his stack when his filly, For Cupid's Sake, loses the Derby. But after an upset at the Preakness, Coley suspects that Carmody's passion for racing is a cover for a far deeper, far darker game. . . .

"Bill Shoemaker follows Dick Francis from the racetrack to the bookshelves."
--Chicago Tribune

Bill Shoemaker retired as a jockey in 1990, after winning a record 8,833 races. He continues to work as a trainer on the Southern California circuit. His previous novels in the Coley Killebrew series are Stalking Horse and Fire Horse.