Rat Race
Harper, 1970
Characters
- Matt Shore
- pilot
- Major Tyderman
- Kenny Bayst
- jockey
- Annie Villars
- trainer
- Eric Goldenberg
- Colin Ross
- champion jockey
- Nancy Ross
- Colin's sister, Midge's twin
- Midge Ross
- Colin's sister, Nancy's twin, has leukemia
- Chanter
- Artist (hippie) who likes Nancy
- Duke of Wessex
- owner of Rudiments
- Matthew
- the Duke's grandson
- Acey Jones
- Australian with a broken leg
Favorite passages
I found a great quote in Rat Race, during Matt's first time at the races
The jockeys were thrown up like confetti and landed in their saddles, and their spindly shining long-legged transportation skittered its way out onto the track.
Chosen by members of the reading group in the late 1990s. From Rat Race by Dick Francis.
The group read it
We discussed Rat Race on June 2, 1997 and again on October 19, 1998.
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.