Blood Sport
Harper, 1967
Characters
- Gene Hawkins
- 38, English agent (screener in the Civil Service)
- Lynnie Keeble
- 17, Keeble's daughter
- Sim Keeble
- Gene's boss
- Joan Keeble
- Keeble's wife
- Dave Teller
- owns and runs a stud farm called Midway Farm, Keeble's friend, American
- Peter Keeble
- 12, Keeble's son
- Eunice Teller
- Teller's wife
- Caroline
- left her husband for Gene, then left Gene when she couldn't get a divorce
- Chrysalis
- Teller's missing horse
- Showman, Allyx
- the horses who were missing before Chrysalis
- Paul M. Zeissen
- works for Buttress Life
- Walt Prensela
- in chargeof the Chrysalis case for Buttress Life
- Chub Lodovski
- Teller's stud groom
- Sam Hengelman
- transports horses
- Sam Kitchens
- lad who looked after Chrysalis in England
- Mr. Arkwright
- trainer
- Snail Express
- "Carry your house on your back, but let us take the weight."
- Yola Clive
- runs the High Zee Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming
- Matt Clive
- Yola's brother, runs the ranch with her
- "Uncle Bark"
- Yola and Matt's uncle
- Quintus L. Wilkerson III ("Wilkie")
- guest at the High Zee
- Betty-Ann Wilkerson
- Wilkie's wife, guest at the High Zee
- Samantha and Mickey Wilkerson
- Wilkie and Betty-Ann's kids, guests at the High Zee
- "Hochner"
- Gene's name while staying at the High Zee
- Jefferson L. Roots
- owns Perry Stud Farm, the Teller's neighbor in Kentucky
- Cullham James Offen
- owns and runs Orpheus Farm in California
- Kiddo
- Offen's stud groom
- Amy
- Walt's wife
- Michael King
- helicopter pilot
- Wilbur Bellman
- owns Far Valley Farm in Kingman, AZ, Kiddo's dad
Favorite passages
When Gene is talking to Lynnie on the beach he says,
Life is serious, life is crazy. Anything crazy is serious, and everything serious is crazy.
Chosen by members of the reading group in the late 1990s. From Blood Sport by Dick Francis.
The group read it
We discussed Blood Sport on April 21, 1997 and again on January 25, 1999.
This page was first written for the reading group's original site in the late 1990s and was lost when AOL Hometown closed. It has been recovered from the Internet Archive.