The Horse Of Her Dreams

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	• The Horse of Her Dreams (Thoroughbred Series #24) Joanna Campbell HarperCollins, 1998 - 176 pages view larger image
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The horse of her dreams

About the book: Christina Reese is a 12 year old girl who lives on Whitebrook farm. Her parents are the famous Ashleigh Griffen and Mike Reese. However, Chris doesnt like racing like her parents do. She would rather jump. She begs her parents for a horse, since she is outgrowing her pony. Well she gets a horse, but not just any horse; she gets Wonder's last foal (Wonder's Legacy). Chris is devastated; she wont even be able to ride Legacy. When the family goes to Belmont to watch a race, she sees the horse of her dreams. Sterling is a dappeled gray mare who is being abused by her groom. Chris would do anything to have her, even give up Wonder's Legacy. She traded Legacy for Sterling. Although life ends well for Sterling, Legacy (as we later find out) never even got the chance to race because his new owner and Brad Townsend didnt agree on ANYTHING.

My Opinion: Awesome book! There is only one problem I had with it and that was the major time jump. I think it jumped ahead by almost 10 years! And for everyone saying the series is supposed to be about racing: If you think about it, Christina feels like racing is more important to her parents than she is. On top of that they keep pushing her to like racing! Of course she will rebel against it. Remeber that old saying "you can lead a horse to water, but you cant make him drink". She already has the oppertunity to enjoy racing (she lives on a racing farm) but no one can make her like it. I wouldnt like it either if it was forced upon me. That would be like your parents trying to force you to marry someone you dont like. BLEH! So anyway what im trying to say is yes the previous books focused on racing, but HELLO we do have a new character and she doesnt like racing. Get over it!

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The Horse of Her Dreams

I loved this book! It was not as good as the last few through. I thought that Chistina was caring to stand up for the horse she loved, and how she gave away Wonder's Legacy. It was amazing, I never saw it coming! This is a book you have to read. Can't wait to read all about Melanie!

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The Horse Of Her Dreams

In the book The Horse Of Her Dreams, years has passed fast. The 3year old Christina Reese is now 12. Christinas parents Ashleigh Griffen was a famous jockey who raced in the Tripple Crown a couple times and the first female to win the Tripple Crown on Wonders Champion, the colt from the famous Ashleighs Wonder. Ashleigh Griffen also has helped train hundreds of promsing and champion thoroughbreds. Mike Reese Christinas father co ownes Whitebrook with Ashleigh. Mike has helped train hundreds of champions also. Mikes very first champion thoroughbred he trained was Jazzman and Ingigo. Both great racehorses and now excellent stallions. Christina is the luckiest girl ever. Christina has taken to 3 day eventing other than racing and wants a new event horse. Her old pony Tribulation is to small for Christina and Christina askes her parents for a new horse. On Christinas, Ashleigh and Mike lead Christina to the horses in training barn and there finds her new horse, Wonders Legacy. The chestnt colt was Ashleighs Wonder last foal and now he belonged to Christina Reese. Christina is upset but doesnt want her parents knowing. Legacy was a racehorse and not an event horse. On Legays first race, he comes in 4th and makes a bit of disapointment. But at the racetrack, Christina sees a grey mare being abused. When Chris sees how poorly the mare races, she finds out the mare can jump. Christina says that is the grey horse of her dreams. The mare jumped beautifully and Christina knew the mare would make a great event horse. Christina finds out the mares next race was a clamings race. Christina a Mike put up for the mare named Sterling Dream. After the race, Christina shows the groom did abuse Sterling and was fired and Christina now had the mare. Then a lady comes by and says she also put up for the mare. The track stewards decide to give Sterling to the lady. Mike offers good money but the lady still wants Sterling. Christina decides to trade her horse Wonders Legacy for Sterling Dream. Finaly Cristina and her parents are back at Whitebrook farm and without Legacy but with Sterling. U can email me for more details, at Blades60@aol.com

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better than expected

After ten years of avoiding this book, and waiting well until the series ended, I finally decided to take a crack at The Horse of Her Dreams. I figured I would abhor it, but after reading the series straight through recently I find that, comparatively speaking, The Horse of Her Dreams makes every Cindy book before it look like a waste of paper. Harper Collins was right in getting rid of Cindy and Karen Bentley...they were a tremendous mistake. Their decision to marginalize racing wasn't exactly a horrible one either, but it definitely could have been done more gradually than tossing dedicated readers into a time in cannon they had no chance of recognizing. The author and/or editor's decision for Christina to trade Legacy for Sterling...probably broke the reader's back, and it should have. There was no reason for it, other than to get right up in everyone's faces and say "there's a new law in town, so shut up and like it."

However, the thing is Allison Estes wrote a decent, if not outstanding, installment to counteract all of these crazy publishing and editing decisions. I can't fault her, nor will I. Her characters have depth and feelings other than "must win, must win, must win" as they complain and moan and cry whenever things don't slightly bend in their favor. Her characters engage in conversations, rather than whine very loudly to themselves when things aren't going right. Her story actually knit together in a semblance of what a story should, rather than the feeling that the story just took you from one point to the next as the character groaned endlessly about how she knows everything and everyone else doesn't. Allison Estes's The Horse of Her Dreams was interesting, and that can't be said for any of the lessons in selfishness that were Karen Bentley's Cindy books.

The writing and characterization improved tremendously here, and for that I'm giving it high marks. The editorial and publishing decisions were silly and overdone, and that's unfortunate. However, just read Arabian Challenge and you'll immediately forgive Christina all her sins.

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Twelve-year-old Christina Reese is the luckiest girl in the world.She lives at the Whitebrook Farm with her dad, Mike, and her mother, Ashleigh Griffen, one of the most famous jockeys ever. And when Christina asked for a horse for her birthday she got Wonder's Legacy, the last foal of her mom's famous racehorse, Wonder.

But Christina doesn't feel so lucky. Everyone expects her to become a jockey, but Christina wants to be an Event rider. All she needs is the perfect horse. Then she sees Sterling Dream, a beautiful gray mare who's being forced to race against her will. Will Christina risk everything she has to take a chance on a Dream?

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