Penguin, Toronto, 2003, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-14-301360-2.  Hard cover, 308 pages.  Unread copy with a touch of edge wear; not remaindered.  Dust jacket has two tiny tears at spine head.  ‘Ray Dokes is an ex-ballplayer, a small-town Ontario man fresh out of prison and fresh out of options.  With just the clothes on his back and a determination to stay out of trouble, he heads to the farm of his old friend Pete Culpepper, a crusty Texas cowboy who trains slow racehorses for a living.  Ray finds the rural landscape of his childhood transformed … One constant remains:  Sonny Stanton, the rich and violent heir of a thoroughbred dynasty … When a ten-million-dollar thoroughbred goes missing from the Stanton Stables, Ray and the others come up with a plan to exact revenge on Sonny, and right a few wrongs in the process.  The scheme is audacious and the players unpredictable.  One false move and Ray will land back in jail.’ (from front flap)