Book description
James MacLiesh shocks his conventional parents when he chooses to work with horses instead of going to collegeācan he make it happen?
Bucking his parentsāand traditionāseventeen-year-old James MacLiesh decides he wants to be a horse trainer. When he arrives at his cousinsā farm, James enters a world completely different fromā¦
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1 author picked Working Trot as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a great novel about a young man who is deciding if he wants to dedicate the rest of his life to training dressage horses. He interns with his cousins who are professional horse trainers and gets a crash course in classical dressage. It follows the real triumphs and struggles of working with horses for a living as well as his personal journey to become a better rider and a stronger person.Ā
From Genevieve's list on about horse actually written by horse people.
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