Old Bones the Wonder Horse
10 best books like Old Bones the Wonder Horse (Mildred Mastin Pace): Black Gold, Man O'War, Ruffian: Burning From the Start, The Horse God Built, Summer Pony, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America, Billy And Blaze: A Boy And His Pony, Beyond the Homestretch: What I've Learned from Saving Racehorses, The Black Stallion's Shadow, The Blind Colt
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0689715625 |
No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes. He knows Black Gold would be great if he was his rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish. And Black Gold grows strong and fast under his careful hands. Soon it would be time for the most important race in America....
| Author | Walter Farley |
| ISBN | 0394860152 |
After reading the official biography of the famous racehorse known as Man O’War, I decided it was about time I went back and read the fictional biography of the horse, written by the famous horse writer, Walter Farley.
You see, back when I was a young kid in love with horses, I was an avid reader...
| Author | Jane Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0345450000 |
During two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. Unbeaten in her first ten starts, she shattered one record after another, dazzling crowds with both her beauty and her brilliant speed. Then tragedy struck on the afternoon of July 6, 1975. Ruffian...
| Author | Lawrence Scanlan |
| ISBN | 0312367244 |
He was the perfect horse, it was said . . . "the horse God built."
Most of us know the legend of Secretariat, the tall, handsome chestnut racehorse whose string of honors runs long and rich: the only two-year-old ever to win Horse of the Year, in 1972; winner in 1973 of the Triple Crown, his times...
| Author | Jean Slaughter Doty |
| ISBN | 0020429509 |
In yet another of my "read over and over as a kid and lost but now found" review series, I bring you Summer Pony. In this amazing book, a young girl's parents rent a pony for her for one summer. They go to a totally run down farm where 20 ponies are being kept in horrible conditions (which in a story today would...
| Author | Charles Leerhsen |
| ISBN | 0743291778 |
A hundred years ago, the most famous athlete in America was a horse. But Dan Patch was more than a sports star; he was a cultural icon in the days before the automobile. Born crippled and unable to stand, he was nearly euthanized. For a while, he pulled the grocer's wagon in his hometown of Oxford, Indiana....
| Author | C.W. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0689716087 |
The first book in the classic, beloved Billy and Blaze series, from renowned author C.W. Anderson.
Billy was a little boy who “loved horses more than anything else in the world.” Imagine how happy he was when he got his very own pony for his birthday! From that day on, Billy was seldom seen...
| Author | Lynn Reardon |
| ISBN | 1577316479 |
In Beyond the Homestretch, Lynn Reardon shares an unlikely story. In 2002, she quit her Washington DC–area office job and moved to rural Texas to open the racehorse adoption ranch LOPE (LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers).
Since then, LOPE has helped transition more than 725 thoroughbreds...
| Author | Steven Farley |
| ISBN | 0679890467 |
It has all the makings of a glorious day--the Black has just won the America's Cup! But the fruits of victory quickly sour when it is learned that the Black's challenger, shying at a shadow on the track, has suffered a fatal fall. Now, the Black himself is hobbled by a fear of shadows, a problem that could...
| Author | Glen Rounds |
| ISBN | 0590323008 |
Having grown up on a Montana ranch, Glen Rounds had the insight to write about the cowboy lifestyle. He did so for more than sixty years, crafting original stories about life on the open range. A fair number of his novels feature Whitey, a young boy who shows all the signs of growing up to be a cowboy, and The...
