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Originally Posted by frui
I don't know much about Horse racing. No such sport in my country. So much of the excitement might escape me.
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The books are just set into environment of horse racing.
I am not interested in horses and racing. The excitement in DF books is not in racing. It is in some person (usually loosely connected to the racing world) trying to solve a crime or catch the villain.
In fact, most of my knowledge about horse racing comes from little details I have read in Dick Francis novels.
When you are writing a book you have to set is somewhere. North pole (DB), Vatican (DB), village somewhere in Britain (Aghata Christie), a spaceship (countless SF writers), ancient China (Robert Van Gulik), anywhere. It is good when the author is familiar with setting, so the book is filled with small details that are convincing and provide "flesh" to his descriptions.