Dick Francis – A National Legend
Richard or Dick Francis as he was known, a champion steeplechase jockey who went on to become a best-selling British mystery writer, sadly died at his home in the Cayman Islands on 14th February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine. It was when he retired from racing in 1957 that he started writing, the first book of which was his autobiography The Sport of Queens. His first novel was Dead Cert, which came out in 1962 and he wrote forty-two novels over the years, many of which had a racing theme.
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