Crime Novelist Dick Francis Dies, This Video Is Stranger Than Fiction
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Feb 14 2010, 10:02 AM
For me Francis will always be defined for his 1956 Grand National ride on the Queen Mother's horse Devon Loch. Leading the race with less than 50 yards to go this happened ...
No definitive reason has ever been uncovered, it is a mystery as strange as any ever penned ... perhaps now the truth may be known.
Best-selling crime writer Dick Francis, who drew on his experience as a successful steeplechase jockey for his racing thrillers, has died aged 89, the BBC said on Sunday.
Francis rode more than 350 winners, and was champion jockey before injury forced him to take up the pen, first writing for a national newspaper as a racing correspondent and then producing more than 40 novels, many of them international bestsellers.
via www.nytimes.com
For me Francis will always be defined for his 1956 Grand National ride on the Queen Mother's horse Devon Loch. Leading the race with less than 50 yards to go this happened ...
No definitive reason has ever been uncovered, it is a mystery as strange as any ever penned ... perhaps now the truth may be known.Best-selling crime writer Dick Francis, who drew on his experience as a successful steeplechase jockey for his racing thrillers, has died aged 89, the BBC said on Sunday.
Francis rode more than 350 winners, and was champion jockey before injury forced him to take up the pen, first writing for a national newspaper as a racing correspondent and then producing more than 40 novels, many of them international bestsellers.
via www.nytimes.com
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