The Yearning
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Ongoing, First published Dec 26, 2015
Mature
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No aspect of National Hunt racing is for the faint hearted. The elite string of horses owned by the Heffernans are living, breathing racing machines and their trainer Michael Heffernan is shrewd, assertive and ruthless yet he's worshipped by the racing world for his glorious achievements. Such a business needs top class employees right? Gain access to the life of the workers behind the horses who make it in the big races. Meet the jockeys and stable hands who dedicate their lives to such a worthy cause.

Michael's son Danny is his primary retained rider who at the young age of nineteen is really putting himself on the map. Nothing can hold him back from achieving champion jockey of the season or having a winner at Cheltnaham. Or can it?

Nina McNamara fresh out of secondary school is looking for a job in the racing industry. She applies for a job at Heffernan's yard against the pleas of her parents begging her to attend college. She's in her first full time job. How will she cope?
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Born To Race

20 parts Complete

Jamie wanted to find the perfect horse. Jamie and her father, Tim started searching. They found a small ranch with some very nice horses and that is when Jamie spotted the perfect horse, Frankel. Jamie immediately fell in love with him. Jamie's mom, Amanda has always been pretty paranoid. She wasn't fond of the idea of Jamie getting a horse and she especially wasn't fond of the idea that Jamie wanted to race. Jamie's dream was to become a jockey and little did she know that Frankel was born to race. Jamie started doing races on him and meeting tons of people. She made friends and also made some rivals. Jamie's biggest rival was Samantha Waters. Samantha was the best jockey around. But when Jamie beats Samantha in a bet, things start going down hill. Samantha gets jealous. Will Jamie be able to beat Samantha in their biggest race yet? Or does Samantha have a plan to make Jamie lose? I want to give credit @RachelLouiseJones because she made this wonderful cover for me! :) Rated - PG Note: This book won't be completely accurate because I don't know a whole bunch about the racing industry. So, there may be a few things I have in here that don't happen in the racing industry but it's not about how accurate it is. This book is meant to be fun and enjoyable to read. I hope you all like this book. I worked really hard on it.

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