Meanwhile, Rupert is content living the jet-set lifestyle with best friend Billy Lloyd-Foxe, plus a string of beautiful women, horses and dogs. With the help of his rich debutante wife, Tory Maxwell, he is able to set himself up his own yard and begins building a reputation on the show-jumping circuit. Jake Lovell, the gypsy-born hero of the novel, is a brilliant horseman desperately seeking revenge for years of bullying at the hands of the glamorous but brutish aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black. Set against the backdrop of the English Cotswolds countryside, Riders follows the fortunes of a group of fame and money hungry show jumping stars. On 5 November 2019 BBC News included Riders on its list of the 100 most inspiring novels. It was turned into a television film, Riders (1993), directed by Gabrielle Beaumont for Anglia Television and broadcast on the ITV Network. The story focuses on the lives of a group of top show jumping stars and follows the ups and downs of both their personal and professional lives. It is the first of a series of romance novels known as the Rutshire Chronicles, which are set in the fictional English county of Rutshire. Riders is a 1985 novel written by the English author Jilly Cooper.
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