Gerrie Ferris Finger, Author
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
HAPPY KENTUCKY DERBY DAY - and a tip of the hard hat to Dick Francis
I grew up riding horses and have a fractured L4 because of my daring-do jumping skills. Throw in a little arthritis on creaky days and there goes my golf game.
All that to admit I loved reading Dick Francis after mucking out the stable. ;-D
In honor of KDD, I'm reading NERVE about a jockey who seems to have lost his nerve. OR, could it be someone is sabotaging him through his mounts?
From 1953 to 1957 Francis was jockey to Queen Elizabeth's Queen Mother. He retired after he rode Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National race. The horse fell near the finish line. Francis wrote over 40 international best sellers before he died on February 14, 2010.
His work lives on because of his collaboration with youngest son, Felix Francis, a physics teacher who retired to research for his father and now continues the horse racing series.
Gerrie Ferris Finger
THE END GAME
THE LAST TEMPTATION due out 2012
THE GHOST SHIP, June 2011
HONORED DAUGHTERS
WHEN SERPENTS DIE
WAGON DOGS
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