Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur.
He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time..
A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers\' Association\'s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen\'s Birthday Honours List in 2000.
After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks.
He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster.
He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom.
About the Author: Dick Francis (pictured with his son Felix Francis) was born in South Wales in 1920.
But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur
