But in the family absence, the Bolshevik threat becomes a reality, and Clements knows that the farm and horses are doomed. There, he falls in love with the Prince's daughter Katya, who returns his love. There's a racing career, then finally the big prize-in 1912 he's hired, from another post in Russia, by a distant cousin of the Tsar, to oversee the construction of a large thoroughbred stud farm, a lovely place beyond St. Through flashbacks, the author reconstructs the early life of Englishman Joseph Clements: a runaway orphan who loves horses and is finally given stable work a happy roustabout with a kind family of circus people and at last an exerciser in a famous stud-farm, where occasionally royal horses are stabled. A deft hand with adventures in exotic places (Katmandu in The Heights of Rimring, 1981 a flooded mountain mine in Level Five, 1982), Hart-Davis here follows the trek of an English horse-trainer as he leads two prize stallions 600 miles to safety through the carnage of the early days of the Russian Revolution.
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