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by Ronda Hutchison
ISBN13: 978-1-5992-6273-4 (Trade Paperback)
ISBN: 1-59926-273-8
(Trade Paperback)
ISBN13: 978-1-5992-6274-1
(Hardback)
ISBN: 1-59926-274-6
(Hardback)
Pages: 247
Subject: FICTION
A sweet farm girl leaves abusive parents and then an abusive husband to set herself on a road to success of becoming a jockey. Along the way, she encounters a couple that accept her and her daughter as family, and grows to love a man that must face and stand up to his father. Because of her patience and unique communication with horses, she calms a temperamental colt and gains his confidence to win the English Grand National aboard him and learns how to pace a special filly enroute to a winning ride in the Kentucky Derby.
Ronda Hutchinson lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she enjoys running and mountain biking. Married to Mike, she has a seventeen-year-old daughter, Janelle, from a previous marriage to a jockey. She spent thirteen years working on horse farms in Ocala, working on racetracks along the East Coast, and has worked horse sales in Ocala, Florida, California, and Saratoga. Her days of working with the horses are over, but the memories live on in her mind and heart. An avid animal lover, her constant animal companion is her dog, Tequila, that runs with her in the Sandia Mountains.
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Read an Excerpt of Tap Dancing in the Shed Row Below
CHAPTER 21
I'm Outta Here tried to take long strides, and Melody helped him as much as she could with her arms and feet pressing against his ribs. She caught one horse; she was in third place! They had gone approximately halfway through the long run-in of a little over a quarter of a mile, and she was closing in on the front two horses.
I'm Outta Here was at the flanks of the two front horses which were nose-to-nose. A hundred yards to go. Melody pushed down on I'm Outta Here's neck with as much force as she could. The horse took as large a stride as he could muster. His head was at the horses' shoulders. Fifty yards to go. Push out with the reins, gather them for another push, squeeze the horse's ribs with her boots. They were at the two horses' jaws. Twenty yards to go. I'm Outta Here lunged with every bit of reserve he had left, stretched his long body out, and crossed the finish line in front by a head.
The crowd roared. A girl had won the world's toughest horse race, coming from far behind to cinch the win right at the wire.
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