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Loading... Born to Trot (original 1950; edition 1993)by Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis (Illustrator)
Work InformationBorn to Trot by Marguerite Henry (1950)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A donation to the Friends of the Library bookstore, I nabbed it first. Classic Marguerite Henry -- lots of interesting horse lore and great horse illustrations, with a fairly weak story tying it all together. I would have liked to spend more of the book at the harness races, and less at a sanitarium with our young hero Gibson White, who is ailing with some mysterious illness that we never get to hear about (maybe TB?). A true story with an exciting ending. ( ) I love, love, love this book! A definite favorite as a teen, all the more so because it was based on a true story (or two) - being obsessed with horses at that age also helped quite a bit. Two stories in one - Gibson's harness-racing horse, Rosalind, and the legendary horse Hambletonian, the "Father of the American Trotter". Good horse-lover's book... no reviews | add a review
As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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