Field of Thirteen Quotes

“Chick forced himself to turn his head away, to walk in view of that window, to take the ten exposed steps down to the chestnut's stall.”
― Dick Francis, Field of Thirteen

“Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering mind and erupted through his nerves instead.”
― Dick Francis, Field of Thirteen

“The house was dark. Upstairs, behind the black open window with the pale curtain flapping in the spartan air, slept Arthur Morrison, trainer of the forty-three racehorses in the stables below. Morrison habitually slept lightly. His ears were sharper than half a dozen guard dogs', his stable-hands said.”
― Dick Francis, Field of Thirteen