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Автор: Betty Lane Holland
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 44
ISBN: 9781743350591
Reared on a bottle when his mother died, the orphan foal never grew as strong and handsome as his friends. So instead of becoming a racehorse in the big city he was sold to a farmer for country racing. Yearning to be famous, he only had one minor race win and then because of drought he was re-sold. Fate returned him to the Stud where he had been born to become a hack for the owner's granddaughter and became a hero when he saved her from a bushfire. The stud owner who had formerly despised the unattractive orphan foal then cared for him for life declaring him 'the best horse I have ever bred'. Author, Betty Lane Holland was editor of The Australian Horse and Rider magazine for five years and New South Wales editor of Hoofs & Horns for another five years until a career change when she broke through the ban on race horse trainers to become the first woman in the world to win a major training premiership. After leading the New South Wales Central Western Districts trainers premiership...
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