Dark Horse: A Coley Killebrew Novel - Tapa dura

On the eve of the Kentucky Derby, jockey Coley Killebrew discovers the race has been fixed, the career of a top jockey is about to be cut short, and several of Hollywood's elite players are about to die. 50,000 first printing.

jockey-turned-mystery writer Bill Shoemaker is back in the winner's circle with his newest racing mystery. In Dark Horse, Shoemaker thrusts his amateur sleuth, Coley Killebrew, into the toughest, tensest case of his career--a case that begins and ends with the Triple Crown, the most famous and lucrative trio of races in the thoroughbred business.
At the behest of his gorgeous fiancée Lea Starbuck, Coley jets off to observe the season get underway at the Kentucky Derby. But he's barely on the ground before he learns that prize race horses confiscated in drug busts are being undervalued and sold at auction. And no less a personage than Jim Carmody, a ruthless billionaire and arch-conservative powermonger, is involved. Carmody blows his stack when his filly, For Cupid's Sake, loses the Derby.
But after an upset at the Preakness, Coley suspects that Carmody's passion for racing is a cover for a far deeper game--a game whose other players include the Drug Enforcement Administration, vicio