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Francis, Dick

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Francis, Dick (1920– )

English writer and jockey. Author of over 30 novels, he won the Golden Dagger Award of the American Crime Writers' Association in 1980, and has also written an autobiography of the rider Lester Piggott (1986). He retired as a jockey in 1957.

Francis was born in Surrey, and turned professional jockey at the age of 28. Following his retirement, the year after his horse Devon Loch collapsed on the point of winning the 1956 Grand National, he began writing as a racing correspondent with the Daily Express.



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