"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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The ride of her life : the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America
Letts, Elizabeth
Paper Book
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
A top-ranked horse trainer's gorgeous, life-affirming memoir that offers profound insight into the fascinating ways both horses and humans seek relationships to survive. At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help...
Death of a racehorse : an American story
Lillis, Katie Bo
Paper Book
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?
Lexington : the extraordinary life and turbulent times of America's legendary racehorse
Wickens, Kim
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . "A vivid portrait of America's greatest stallion,the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived."-Geraldine Brooks,author of Horse The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained...
The last ride of the Pony Express : my 2,000-mile horseback journey into the Old West
Grant, Will
Paper Book
USA Today bestseller!  Cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime, boldly illuminating both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit...
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
Paper Book
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...

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