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Miller - Collection of verse on horses with chapters on history, exposition, talk, fame, and parimutuels interspersed with quotes and great photos of horses.
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Smiley
Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris, Horse Heaven puts us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives. Here is the trainer of dazzling integrity and his opposite: a wicked prince of the tract, headed for still another swindle; here are the gamblers and hangers-on. And in an amazing feat of imagination, here are the magnificent Thoroughbreds themselves, from the filly orphaned at birth to the brown horse who always wins by a nose, a lovable "claimer" who passes from owner to owner on a heartwrenching journey down from the winner's circle.
All the constant excitement of racing courses through a novel that opens up a fascinating world even as it moves us with its exploration of wanting, loving, and striving; of our mysterious bond with animals; and, above all, of our profound desire to connect-emotionally, sexually, spiritually-with each other. Smiley's colorful and character-ridden look at the Horse Racing Industry has made this novel very popular for a long time now.
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Probert
Bonnie Marlewski-Probert is a nationally recognized equestrian authority and horsewoman who was professionally trained in Hunt Seat and Western riding disciplines. Hooked on horses at the age of eight, horses and riding have been her life-long passion. Capably edited by Susan Strafford, each of three volumes comprising Bonnie Marlewski-Probert's outstanding series, Horse Tales For The Soul, contain 40 original stories submitted by horse lovers from around the world and is divided into chapters highlighting life lessons such as gratitude, overcoming adversity, appreciation,
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Kientopf - Although Rich has spent his life in the upper Mississippi River Valley and some people donÕt consider that "cowboy country", he considers himself a real cowboy anyway. He says, "In the year 2000, I think being a cowboy is more a philosophical choice and value system, though in order to avoid being an "urban cowboy", one must have an intimate attachment to the land and an almost instinctive knowledge of horses and livestock." Every poem in Rich's book is based on a true-life experience of his or someone he's known. Each poem has a little intro to fill you in on what it means to him and where the inspiration came from. Rich invites you to "saddle up with me and ride through the pages of this book."
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Kendall
As his first book, The Animals in My Life, so successfully demonstrated, Grant Kendall is a peerless storyteller. Anyone who read that book and was sorry to see it end now has an all-new collection of stories to savor. Once again, Kendalls ear for dialog and eye for local color do not desert him. A myriad of animals, their owners, friends, andin some instancestheir persecutors are the focal point of the twenty-five stories included here. A host of characters, human and otherwise, are sure to evoke a range of emotions in readers. Stories about cats, dogs, goats, horses, and birds abound. And the cow, perhaps the only creature Kendall loathes, figures in several hilarious tales.
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McGuane
Since his arrival as a novelist and essayist in the late 1960s, Thomas McGuane's elegant and muscular prose has left its print on the trail of American letters, exploring the American landscape and exposing the American heart. In the nine finely tooled essays that make up Some Horses, McGuane explores and exposes his own passionately layered relationship to the cutting horses he rides and works on his Montana ranch. The author's admiration for his four-legged characters is displayed with perceptive wit and clear affection: "If a horse were a Ford," he suggests, "the species would vanish beneath lawsuits engendered by consumer-protection laws." As both participant and observer, McGuane makes sure his readers feel the unique intimacy of the man-horse relationship. "We have saturated the horse with our emotions," he writes. "Yet, a lover of horses has nothing to prove and no expertise to reveal. It is important that we find animals to love, and that is the end of the story."
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Milly Hunt Porter
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