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Thoroughbred #40
Ultimate Risk
A great opportunity...
Now that Christina Reese and her cousin Melanie Graham are jockeys, they want to ride as many horses for as many trainers as they possibly can.
When Christina is asked to ride a difficult horse for one of the best-known trainers in Kentucky, she leaps at the chance to prove herself. But she'll have to race against her own horse--Wonder's Star. Is it worth the risk?
Read Thoroughbred and experience the powerful bond between a determined girl and a very special colt. If you love horses, then you'll love these books!
Now that Christina Reese and her cousin Melanie Graham are jockeys, they want to ride as many horses for as many trainers as they possibly can.
When Christina is asked to ride a difficult horse for one of the best-known trainers in Kentucky, she leaps at the chance to prove herself. But she'll have to race against her own horse--Wonder's Star. Is it worth the risk?
Read Thoroughbred and experience the powerful bond between a determined girl and a very special colt. If you love horses, then you'll love these books!
176 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2000
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July 6, 2010
*SPOILER ALERT*
Christina's selfishness annoyed the hell out of me when she hoped Star wouldn't go as well for Melanie, but I was glad when she chose Gratis over Star in the end.
Christina's selfishness annoyed the hell out of me when she hoped Star wouldn't go as well for Melanie, but I was glad when she chose Gratis over Star in the end.
December 31, 2015
Kind of annoyed how they changed silks colors for Towsand Acres but that's what happens when you have ghost writers.
October 25, 2024
The whatthefuckery is huge with this one.
I see that 100 Goodreaders gave this book five star reviews. Are all you people liars, or just insane?
It made absolutely zero sense that either Christina or Melanie would need, or even want, to ride horses other than those at Whitebrook. It's not as if the entire racing string at Whitebrook vanished. Whitebrook is supposedly a smallish operation, but they always seemed to have had at least twenty horses in training at any given time.
Just how many horses Whitebrook had was never, ever mentioned, throughout the entire series, let alone how many were in training, from weanlings to seasoned campaigners. Only a handful of employees were ever named, or even mentioned.
Did Mary Newhall Anderson have any idea how exhausting it is just working with one horse, let alone going out of your way to work even MORE horses into your life?
Obviously not.
Mary Newhall Anderson was the worst ghostwriter this series had, and this was about the best book she ever did in the series. Although this book would've been interesting enough by itself, it does not make any sense in the context of this series. Newhall Anderson should've filed this one away for her own book, not in the Thoroughbred series.
She suffered from an extreme lack of imagination, as well as information as just how the Thoroughbred racing industry works. For example, why are these girls working without a jockey agent?
A much better story would've been Ashleigh telling the girls about some of the worst horses or most difficult races she rode during her career. It would've made more sense, anyway. Mary Newhall Anderson wrote several books in the series that were nothing but flashbacks. In two of the books Derby Fever and Legacy's Gift, the timing of the flashbacks made absolutely no fucking sense, since they were just synopsis of previous books in the series.
But here, she would've had to come up with original flashbacks during a time not covered in any way during the series. So, there wouldn't have been any continuity issues. My God -- there really wasn't anything for a nearly ten year span. The missed opportunity is mind boggling in the nth degree.
The only good thing about this book is the cover, which is undoubtedly the best of the series. It's just too bad that the lazy text in no way matched the unnamed artist's hard work.
Horses in here include Star, Missy, Rascal, Decisive Moment, and I believe this is the book where we are introduced to Perfect Image, as well as Gratis.
I see that 100 Goodreaders gave this book five star reviews. Are all you people liars, or just insane?
It made absolutely zero sense that either Christina or Melanie would need, or even want, to ride horses other than those at Whitebrook. It's not as if the entire racing string at Whitebrook vanished. Whitebrook is supposedly a smallish operation, but they always seemed to have had at least twenty horses in training at any given time.
Just how many horses Whitebrook had was never, ever mentioned, throughout the entire series, let alone how many were in training, from weanlings to seasoned campaigners. Only a handful of employees were ever named, or even mentioned.
Did Mary Newhall Anderson have any idea how exhausting it is just working with one horse, let alone going out of your way to work even MORE horses into your life?
Obviously not.
Mary Newhall Anderson was the worst ghostwriter this series had, and this was about the best book she ever did in the series. Although this book would've been interesting enough by itself, it does not make any sense in the context of this series. Newhall Anderson should've filed this one away for her own book, not in the Thoroughbred series.
She suffered from an extreme lack of imagination, as well as information as just how the Thoroughbred racing industry works. For example, why are these girls working without a jockey agent?
A much better story would've been Ashleigh telling the girls about some of the worst horses or most difficult races she rode during her career. It would've made more sense, anyway. Mary Newhall Anderson wrote several books in the series that were nothing but flashbacks. In two of the books Derby Fever and Legacy's Gift, the timing of the flashbacks made absolutely no fucking sense, since they were just synopsis of previous books in the series.
But here, she would've had to come up with original flashbacks during a time not covered in any way during the series. So, there wouldn't have been any continuity issues. My God -- there really wasn't anything for a nearly ten year span. The missed opportunity is mind boggling in the nth degree.
The only good thing about this book is the cover, which is undoubtedly the best of the series. It's just too bad that the lazy text in no way matched the unnamed artist's hard work.
Horses in here include Star, Missy, Rascal, Decisive Moment, and I believe this is the book where we are introduced to Perfect Image, as well as Gratis.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 14, 2023
Great story, but with a few typos throughout. The ending was intense and emotional.
November 10, 2021
I'm still enjoying these books so much!!
October 30, 2014
Reread.
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