This has always been one of my favorites along with a much later one - Shattered. Both feature creative geniuses, this one a designer of mechanical toys and the other an artist working with hot glass.
Steven Scott has made a fortune from his line of mechanical toys and has graduated to big boy toys for himself - in the form of race horses and racing. The story opens as he fires his trainer for systematically cheating him. The opening irony is that Steven has discovered that Jody Leeds, his trainer, has a clever little number going in gambling scams, and when he confronts Jody with cheating him - Jody inadvertently gives away the fact that he has been cheating him on supplies and services. And even that turns out to be only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
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