Thoroughbred Stories

To Defy Gravity is a book set in the point of view of Sage Carter, who is a teen with a troubled mind due to a riding accident when she was fourteen. When she keeps having nightmares and waking up in cold sweats at four in the morning her mother and guidance counsellor suggest that she takes on the fear head first. After long discussions, arguments and mental breakdowns Sage finally agrees to go to a stable called Canterbury Crest where she meets a stallion that ignights the spark that had been sitting in her heart ever since she stopped sitting in the saddle; so with ambition and fear Sage takes on the challenge and rises to try and gain respect and happiness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- my equestrian friend is probably going to absoulutely kill me for creating a riding book, but my brain is bursting at the seams with ideas. But, you guys should go check out her book at [ @shea_random ] it's really good and features me playing as Alex! Thanks to @shea_random for the cover too! - Kat xx

Clara Williams has natural talent, and everyone knows it. Well, everyone but her. She's spent practically her whole life as an equestrian, she loves the horses, the people, and the atmosphere of the sport. She's humble too, which is rare in most people who have her talent. Between all of her wins, Clara is becoming well known in the horse world. She's practically perfect, she just doesn't realize it. "I am nothing special. I'm just trying to do well in this sport, like everyone else." ~Clara Williams

Lina and her family live on and run a Thoroughbred stud and rehabilitation centre for abused horses. When her parents buys a new mare, she immediately loves the beautiful chocolate flaxen. Her training falls to Lina, and it soon becomes apparent that she has a whole assortment of problems. With the help of her best friend, her parents and her two brothers, she sets out on this adventure. Will she succeed in gaining the young mare with the shadowy past's trust?

I suck at descriptions so... Enjoy the book!

One day a group of teenager girls, Elena Lane, Mayella Addison, and Paige Smith finds an auction for horse and finds their new barrel horses, Hollywood Runner(Holly is her nickname) who is 7 years old, Promice Land (Promice for the barn name) who is 6 years old, and Beautiful Ride aka Beauty,who is 8 Years old. Elena and her friends try their new horses on barrels, after a week on barrels they drive to their first rodeo . This is how Elena and her two best friends started their barrel racing career took off.

Alesia Kent beautiful & interested in barrel racing, she's been riding horses since the age of three. Alesia has never owned her own horse before, that's when she rescues a thoroughbred stallion named Focus On Me who's stable name is Blueberry. He's bound to run, but will Blueberry allow her to ride along? Copyright 2017

When three new rescued horses come in, Riley is astonished to find a horse that seems to have death flying overhead, lowering each day. He comes with protruding bones, sores covering his legs, rotten skin, and a malnourished, matted winter coat still attached even though it is summer, refusing to neither eat nor drink. A short story about a day at the Off-Track-Thoroughbred Rescue.

Blake River and his family owns a small breeding farm called Riverbend. Soon to be turning 18, all he wants is to buy his own racehorse. With his heart set on a colt, all he wants is to fulfill his dreams of having a runner in the the Triple Crown. Attending Keeneland's yearling sale this Fall, his idea of getting a colt soon falls short as a tall high spirited filly captures his attention. She's was going to be special and he knew that he just had to have her. With the help of his friends and family, they raise the filly to meet her utmost potential. No one had imagined how great the filly will become. They all only dreamed of having a horse in the Triple Crown, little did they know the filly will bring big surprises. *Editing as I go through. *I do not own any of the pictures, all the credit go to the owners.

Adella has always had a love for the equine species. She wants nothing more than to own her own prospect. Over the years, she has worked hard and saved up. Now that she finally owns one, she realizes how much harder it is to train a horse than she originally expected. Adella must find a way to gather the ability and knowledge to train her new horse and control the power within the spirited animal. Will she manage through the process or fail to accomplish her dream?

Froststella is the daughter of a Quarter Horse mare ,Frosty. Frosty was living a great life at Midsummer Night Meadows until one night when she was stolen. Her owner tried everything to find her but Frosty was not found until many years later. The people who had stolen her had paid a great deal to have a fertilizer egg of a foal who had; Barbaro, Ruffian, Secretariat, Sir Barton, Man O' War, Zenyatta, Assault, and all of the Triple Crown Winners DNA in it. But they did not know Frosty had a hard time carrying foals. When they found out they beat her. When Her owner Carly found her she know that Frosty would die giving birth to her foal. Carly let Frosty carry this foal. When Frosty gives birth, Carly named the foal Froststella. Here is Froststella's story.

Partner, a failed racehorse, gets a second chance when a teenage girl saves him from a kill pen at an auction. When tragedy strikes, he's donated to the NYPD's Mounted Unit Training Program where he embarks on yet another adventure. This is dedicated to all the OTTB's (Off Track Thoroughbreds) who don't get a second chance and to the real "S.M." whose courage and dedication to duty always amazes me. A/N-will be updated weekly on Saturdays

Romance and adventure…a trip to where an American tradition began… Libby Edwards, a gifted horsewoman, unwittingly wishes herself back in time to Louisville, Kentucky just before Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby become a reality. During Libby’s journey in the past, she stumbles upon her destiny. Unfortunately, he’s in the wrong century. In 1874, there’s no electricity, no internet, no modern medicine, no antibiotics—no Starbucks! And even worse than that, women have no rights. Libby has no desire to stay. Widower, Colin Thorpe, a renaissance man of his time, has big dreams. He is a horse breeder who names his thoroughbreds after Mythological Gods because he has a reverence for past cultures and an appreciation for the unexplainable. Libby and Colin can’t resist falling in love with each other. After all, Colin accepts Libby for who she is and she understands Colin’s dreams better than his deceased wife ever did. Yet he grasps early on that Libby doesn’t belong in 1874. And because his wife never adapted to the move from Virginia to Kentucky, becoming bitter and unhappy in the process, he won’t take the chance of the same thing happening to Libby. Can these two lovers find a way to be together despite their obstacles?

A little memoir of how I went from being a volunteer at a riding to a stable hand at a racing stables, to then going to be a stable hand at a training, and competing stable that also manages a stud only to find myself on a little property in NSW. Getting to do a lot of new things I never thought I would do. I learned so much to do with horses, done so much and have worked many incredible horses and people. So follow my story, through ups and downs and through the Covid pandemic.

What if all you trusted was to crumble about you? When a new pony arrives at Valley Riding School, volunteer Abby has no idea of the integral role that he has to play in the unfolding of her life. She goes from riding once per week to preparing for her first show- however as she begins to live her dream, she finds herself ensnared within a web of trust and deceit. #1 in Equestrian 11/01/19

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Frost is only a 5 minute old foal and since then she got forgotten about. The people at the barn didnt want her. So they planned to get rid of her in a different way. Before that tragedy happens, Frost gets saved along with three more fillies. They wait to get adopted. Frost is last to get adopted. Frosts story continues throughout the years with her new owner. Please keep in mind that this story is completely all my idea. It took me a while to come up with it all. I also mention death and other more adult things so please if you are a child, ask your parents abput reading such words. Thanks!

She was an equestrian since birth. Everyone joked that she was born in the saddle. It was her life. That is until the accident. Since then she has feared ever getting back in the saddle. Not wanting to get close to another one of these creatures. That is until she met him, a beautiful mistreated horse. Terrified and helpless because of what humans have done to him. She see's something in him. Even though her mind is telling her not to make that bid, her heart is all in. Now to gain the trust of a broken soul.

Tara is an employee at the highly prestigious Wattle Grove Stables settled in the valleys of New South Wales, Australia. Tara falls in love with the horse of stable owner, 'Prince' better known as Silverstar. But after a mishap during a show, the owners threaten to sell the gelding. Tara convinces them to sell her the dapple grey, but Prince is no longer the same horse. Tara knows, Prince still has it in his heart to be the horse he was bred to be. Aided by the stableboy Nick, Tara struggles to bring the champion back out in the horse she had grown to love. Will Tara be able to bring the life back into the broken horse? And who will be able to bring the life back into Tara?