Summary
Bluegrass aristocracy curdles into a venal circus when a covetous rival, nostrils flaring with the scent of easy glory, orchestrates the disappearance of his foe’s blue-blood heir—spiriting the boy off to a reeking freighter where rusted chains clank like funeral bells. Simultaneously, a jockey is lured into a smoky basement card den, his soul anted against stacked decks and leering spotlights. What follows is a kaleidoscope of sabotage: midnight abductions, cyclonic squalls, barn-burning frame-ups, and airplane stunts that spit oil across a marmalade sky. Every fetlock-blessed stride toward the Churchill Downs wire is shadowed by whispered threats, forged ledgers, and the slow realization that the garland of roses may be woven from human sinew.
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Dirty work is afoot in old Kentucky when a rival decides that his horse will have a better chance of winning if the son of the owner isn't around, so he has him shanghaied onto a tramp freighter and gets the jockey in his debt through a crooked gambling game. Airplanes, ship-wrecks, sea storms, kidnapping, frame-up and much skullduggery prior to the race.
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