Sainte Bastien
Lissa Olivers Sainte Bastien.If you want a primer on thoroughbred horse racing you couldnt do much better than read Lissa...
The Berkshire racing stable, Sainte Bastien, has been in the Marchant family for generations, a bastion of old-fashioned values and integrity, but the next in line now jeopardises the family name as misfortune dogs the stable. Jockey Mark Ashton is forced into early retirement by injury and suffers a spectacular mental breakdown. Replacement, Kym Hughes, had dreamed of a top position during twenty years of mediocrity. He had the talent, but never the breaks. At 34, the break finally comes, but at Ashton’s expense. Kym wonders if benefiting from a colleague’s misfortune has invoked a curse, as he now suffers nothing but ill luck and Nick Marchant isn’t noted for his patience. Champion trainer Nick Marchant has his own troubles. The sudden retirement of Ashton left him high and dry at the start of the Flat racing season and replacement Hughes seems to be cursed. Nick can’t help but feel a little guilty at not showing Ashton the sympathy deserved, but sympathy isn’t his finer trait. The early death of his young wife taught him to be...
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Lissa Olivers Sainte Bastien.If you want a primer on thoroughbred horse racing you couldnt do much better than read Lissa Olivers third racing thriller Sainte Bastien. Fiction it is, but Oliver, an experienced racing journalist and researcher, packs the novel with her in-depth knowledge of the self-contained bubble that is high-octane...
