"Mane" Character Energy

"To ride a horse is to ride the sky." These stories tell about the bond between people and horses, famous horses, and horseracing.

Updated January 23, 2026
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Project Solomon : the true story of a lonely horse who found a home--and became a hero
Stuber, Jodi
Ebook
"It's hard to be lonely, isn't it? To miss someone who should be here?"Jodi Stuber wasn't looking for another horse for her struggling therapy ranch--let alone one like Solomon. After losing his herd, he was solitary and sad, spending his days standing near the plastic deer in his yard for...
The ride of her life : the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America
Letts, Elizabeth
Audiobook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion presents a "heartwarming [and] engaging folk-hero biography" (Kirkus Reviews) of a woman who fulfilled her lifelong wish to see the Pacific Ocean by...
Half broke : a memoir
Gaffney, Ginger
Paper Book
An alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many--the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling...
Death of a racehorse : an American story
Lillis, Katie Bo
Named one ofFinancial Times's Best Books of 2025 The inside story of the crisis within the country's most classic sport--horseracing--and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game. Every year, hundreds of horses die on the racetrack. Why?
Ghost riders : when US and German soldiers fought together to save the world's most beautiful horses in the last days of World War II
Felton, Mark
Ebook
It is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered . . . As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report...
The Compton cowboys : the new generation of cowboys in America's urban heartland
Thompson-Hernández, Walter
Paper Book
"Thompson-Hernández's portrayal of Compton's black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton's young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in the west. An eye-opening, moving book."-- Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times...

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