Oh this is fascinating! Thank you so much for this background information! Perhaps I will see if I can watch The Racing Game... Yes it looks like the local library has the DVDs. Now I just need to get a working DVD player!

This works out very well really, I have become curious to watch something with James Maxwell, and what better than a Dick Francis adaptation that inspired Dick Francis to write more books about the characters? Clearly once I've sorted the DVD player situation, I'll watch The Racing Game and then read Whip Hand and report back on the Sid/Charles of it all.