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You couldn't say that Jeff Hinkley, a British Horseracing Authority investigator , was having a midlife crisis, but now that he's not working as an undercover agent quite so much he's not getting the same satisfaction from the job. That was one of the reasons he was delighted to be seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency where the Deputy Director is pretty sure that there's a mole in the organisation. Too many raids have been foiled by the target seeming to know what was going to happen and having the chance to clean up before the investigators arrived. There's not too much to keep Hinkley in the UK, apart from a sister with cancer who says that he should go.
It seems that the FACSA man, Tony Andretti is right, but it's difficult to follow up from the agency end and Hinkley decides that he'll go undercover as a groom in racing stables on the backstretch at Belmont Park. He's chosen his stable carefully: there's a horse in the stable in with a chance at the Triple Crown - winning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes, a feat achieved by only the best racehorses. If there's going to anything illegal going on, it could well be in George Raworth's stables, as the financial benefits to both the owner and the trainer of a triple crown horse run into millions.
