A Queen of the Paddock

A Romance of the Race Course

By Charles E. Pearce

This is Pearce’s second sporting novel, after the previous year’s Corinthian Jack. This was published by Stanley Paul in 1921.

This text is taken from the Brentano’s edition, published in New York in 1921 (orange cover, at the right). The picture cover is from Benman’s edition, published in London in 1927.

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Contents

• I. On the Seamy Side
• II. The Magic of a “Mascotte”
• III. “Vi. Vaughan or Her Ghost, and Handsomer than ever”
• IV. On the A.P. Course
• V. Daughter of the Mist
• VI. “I’ve No Horses to Show You Now”
• VII. “I've Sworn to be Master of Normanhurst Once More”
• VIII. A Chapter from the Past
• IX. Violetta’s “Joy-Ride”
• X. Mrs. Willoughby Smythe
• XI. Peter Gumley, the Trainer
• XII. Violetta, the Horse Tamer
• XIII. “I’m Your Wife, Jack”
• XIV. “Violetta may be no better than Christine”
• XV. How a Man looks at it
• XVI. Lord Verschoyle’s “Cracks”
• XVII. Violetta takes Lord Verschoyle in Hand
• XVIII. A Memory of Monte Carlo
• XIX. Ella Asserts Herself
• XX. Violetta shows Fight
• XXI. Quits!
• XXII. Lord Verschoyle makes the Plunge
• XXIII. The Parting of the Ways
• XXIV. Violetta’s Trying Day
• XXV. Dan Westoby’s Last Coup