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Hi everyone!

We will be doing a feature on good books about or featuring horses in an upcoming issue of Hoofbeats. What are your favorite horse books?

I'd like to know both "practical" books (books on training or keeping horses, or the history of horses, or books about their health, biology, habitat, etc.) and also fiction: mysteries, novels, science fiction, even romances, that feature horses.

Some of my favorites are:

The "Sister Jane" mystery series about foxhunting by Rita May Brown
Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage by Cherry Hill
A Good Horse is Never a Bad Color by Mark Rashid
Seabiscuit (my favorite) by Laura Hillenbrand
Ruffian: Burning from the Start by Jane Schwartz
Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack

OK, your turn! And please ask your friends to come post their answers too, I want to make sure I don't leave out any great books. If they don't want to post, they can email me here:

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I really love my book that I got many, many moons ago called,
"Centered Riding" by Sally Swift. I notice now that there is a Centered Riding 2 and a few videos. Hmm...I'll have to get those.

Another great book is about the REAL horse whisperer, Monty Roberts "The Man Who Listens To Horses". He's a hero to me. He took my grandfather's way of breaking a horse, with flour sacks full of grain, whips and spurs and made them obsolete in my mind and many others.

Oh! And of course there's the kids books, if you're interested: the "Black Stallion" series that I enjoyed when I was a kid along with "My Friend Flicka", "Misty of Chincoteague", "Justin Morgan Had a Horse", OOOOOOhhh...and my favorite that I read over and over and over and over..."Black Beauty". Some of those are timeless.

If I think of any more I'll let you know.

Dark Lotus

Akkkkkkkk, Im being a dunce again, but that is my normal state. There is a series of mysteries with a retired British jockey as the detective, and I can't remember the author. They give an excellent picture of the British racing scene as well as a good read. And, I think, it's Willy Shoemaker that has also been doing some writing since his retirement...