For more than 60 years they have been as big a part of the festive season for racing fans as Kempton’s King George VI Chase. A Dick Francis novel in the Christmas stocking is evidence that the ...

The backlisted horseracing thriller novels by father and son team Dick and Felix Francis have been optioned by TV production company Kudos. The sale of rights to Kudos were negotiated by Ed Wilson at ...

Bestseller Francis’s less than inspired third horse-racing mystery featuring Jefferson Hinkley (after 2015’s Front Runner) takes Jeff, who works for the Integrity Service of the British Horseracing ...

LONDON >> Shaunae Miller-Uibo pulled up with about 30 meters to go. Allyson Felix uncharacteristically faded near the finish. Phyllis Francis? She just kept on running. The rematch between Felix and ...

It looked as though nothing could come between him and his fi st Grand National win on a horse owned by the Queen Mother to boot. But then his mount did something that has mystified racing fans ever ...

Hold onto your hats… Felix Francis is back in the saddle and ready to take us over the jumps. Since the death of his father, the legendary jockey and thriller writer Dick Francis, Francis Junior has ...

EUGENE — Had her parents got their initial wish, Phyllis Francis would have been the next Serena Williams. Alas, she told USA TODAY Sports with a laugh, she got started too late to become a tennis ...