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Thoroughbred #48
Cindy's Bold Start
What will Cindy do now?
When Cindy McLean goes to Belmont to clean out her apartment, she finds her old diary and is taken back to the days when she started racing in New York, after she fled Dubai...
Find out what happened in Cindy's own words as she struggled to compete against the best male jockeys in the country. She was new to tough Belmont trainers and had trouble getting rides. But Cindy never stopped trying, and in time she was winning big races on a filly no one else thought could run.
Now that Cindy can't ride anymore, her life has changed drastically. She'll need to tap some of that old determination as she sets off boldly in a new direction.
When Cindy McLean goes to Belmont to clean out her apartment, she finds her old diary and is taken back to the days when she started racing in New York, after she fled Dubai...
Find out what happened in Cindy's own words as she struggled to compete against the best male jockeys in the country. She was new to tough Belmont trainers and had trouble getting rides. But Cindy never stopped trying, and in time she was winning big races on a filly no one else thought could run.
Now that Cindy can't ride anymore, her life has changed drastically. She'll need to tap some of that old determination as she sets off boldly in a new direction.
176 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2001
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June 2, 2008
I like when the series gets back to some of its main characters instead of dwelling in the Pony Club land of Christina and Melanie.
August 7, 2024
Oh, I can't believe I paid money for this crap.
There was a sudden ten year jump from book number 23 to 24. There was ZERO explanation for why Cindy was missing, and what happened to her. There was also no explanation as to what happened to Ashleigh's pregnancy. It took over twenty books before the series finally decided to address what the hell happened to Cindy and Ashleigh's fetus.
This is the second book in that explanation. I may one day review Cindy's Desert Adventure, but I'm still too shell-shocked to do it. Let's just say that I really hate HarperCollins with a purple passion. And I absolutely loathe Mary Newhall Anderson, the brain-dead moron who wrote this. Even Joanna Campbell didn't like Mary Newhall Anderson.
Shit, even I could've written a more plausible and far more realistic explanation as to what happened to Cindy -- that's how bad this is. Even if Cindy had BEEN IN A COMA or was WORKING UNDERCOVER FOR THE CIA would've made more sense.
Apparently, the Thoroughbred series went into some of alternate universe at book 24, and at times went into an alternative universe of THAT alternative universe. This book made
NO
FUCKING
SENSE
AT
ALL.
What jockey would want to hide their true identity after they won a Grade I race that was televised internationally?
Who, in the tiny, insulated world of Thoroughbred racing, would NOT have recognized Cindy?
Why, in holy fuck, did she never contact Ashleigh back about riding Honor Bright, presumably one of her favorite horses EVER, in a Grade I?
Why did her previously loving adoptive family refuse to contact her? Come to think of it, only Ashleigh tried to contact her repeatedly.
Cindy acts like a total lunatic, and the book treats her behavior as totally normal. Cindy states that she didn't want anyone's help in becoming a successful jockey. But everything she was doing was THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what even a halfway decent jockey would do. She doesn't even have an agent.
Even more inexplicably, she has zero interest in all of the horses at Whitebrook, even March to Glory. She's only interested in Honor Bright in order to further her career.
This wasn't anything like a Bold Start. This was a Please Send Me To Intense Therapy Start.
There was a sudden ten year jump from book number 23 to 24. There was ZERO explanation for why Cindy was missing, and what happened to her. There was also no explanation as to what happened to Ashleigh's pregnancy. It took over twenty books before the series finally decided to address what the hell happened to Cindy and Ashleigh's fetus.
This is the second book in that explanation. I may one day review Cindy's Desert Adventure, but I'm still too shell-shocked to do it. Let's just say that I really hate HarperCollins with a purple passion. And I absolutely loathe Mary Newhall Anderson, the brain-dead moron who wrote this. Even Joanna Campbell didn't like Mary Newhall Anderson.
Shit, even I could've written a more plausible and far more realistic explanation as to what happened to Cindy -- that's how bad this is. Even if Cindy had BEEN IN A COMA or was WORKING UNDERCOVER FOR THE CIA would've made more sense.
Apparently, the Thoroughbred series went into some of alternate universe at book 24, and at times went into an alternative universe of THAT alternative universe. This book made
NO
FUCKING
SENSE
AT
ALL.
What jockey would want to hide their true identity after they won a Grade I race that was televised internationally?
Who, in the tiny, insulated world of Thoroughbred racing, would NOT have recognized Cindy?
Why, in holy fuck, did she never contact Ashleigh back about riding Honor Bright, presumably one of her favorite horses EVER, in a Grade I?
Why did her previously loving adoptive family refuse to contact her? Come to think of it, only Ashleigh tried to contact her repeatedly.
Cindy acts like a total lunatic, and the book treats her behavior as totally normal. Cindy states that she didn't want anyone's help in becoming a successful jockey. But everything she was doing was THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what even a halfway decent jockey would do. She doesn't even have an agent.
Even more inexplicably, she has zero interest in all of the horses at Whitebrook, even March to Glory. She's only interested in Honor Bright in order to further her career.
This wasn't anything like a Bold Start. This was a Please Send Me To Intense Therapy Start.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 10, 2014
Reread.
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