Does anyone know this book set in the world od horse racing? Warning - contains a very vague description.

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I read it when I was a teenager. It might be YA fiction, not sure as I had free run of the library and used to read from every section. It is based in the racing world and I think the main character was a young woman and part of it is about a jockey (possibly a real life person but it isn't a biography). I remember a part about the jockey trying to lose weight for a race.

I've been doing some googling but I don't have enough to go on.

Thanks

Dick Francis writes a lot of books set in the racing world.

What sort of book was it - romance? Detective?

It definitely wasn't a thriller or detective, maybe a romance. I read it nearly 30 years ago. Sorry for being vague.

Jilly Cooper? Riders? Although I'm not sure that's 30 years old

Jilly Cooper? Riders? Although I'm not sure that's 30 years old

National Velvet - this was a popular film.m I guess there was a book version also.

Black beauty?

Rupert Cambell-Black..omg am having palpitations at the memory. Riders is 1985 so bang on 30 years old.

Sorry for the double post.

Actually it was published in 1985.

You could loosely call it a romance!!!

I haven't read Riders for ages. I think I'm going to have to read it again, for research purposes to see if it's op's book, ...![ blush]

Might it have been by K.M. Peyton? She wrote quite a lot of horsey books and I think I vaguely remember there was one about a jockey.

I've found it!

It was Dear Fred by KM Peyton. I knew it wasn't a Flambards book so dismissed KM Peyton but out of no-where I remembered the jockey was named Fred and that led me to it.

I wonder if it was any good. I remember it quite fondly.