Goodreads asked Shelley Lee Riley:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Shelley Lee Riley For me, it wouldn’t be about a mystery per se but more about what if. What if my horse had won the Kentucky Derby instead of running second. What if I had chosen to accept the invitation from the Queen of England to run my horse in the Epsom Derby? What if I had gone to get a hot chocolate on that snowy day in Kentucky instead of stopping to look into the eyes of a fuzzy little brown colt? So, saying that the what if’s in life are by their very nature a mystery? The story I would tell would be of a horse-crazy girl from the suburbs who grew up to be the first female trainer to saddle a winner of the Kentucky Derby.

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