Life hasn't been easy for Joey Leatham. From the Liverpool orphanage he escaped to a circus, where he discovered horses and learned to be a trapeze artist. Then a terrifying accident leaves two men dead, and he abandons the circus to join his brother, Danny, as an apprentice jockey in Newmarket. Suddenly his lack of size is an advantage, and soon Joey is one of the most sought-after jockeys in Europe. Then he is blackmailed, and his past comes back to haunt him. But how can he reveal the identity of the blackmailer?