Rat Race

Matt Shore, flying for a small air-taxi charter firm, took five passengers on a routine flight to the races — two jockeys, a trainer, an owner, and a friend. At the end of the afternoon he flew them off homewards again, discussing the successes and disasters of their day.
Awaiting them in the summer sky lay a quick extinction, which was avoided by a coincidence, an instinct, a hair’s breadth...