https://youtu.be/LDzJt9cGo6Y caution : SPOILERS!!!!!

Don't remember this one as vividly as the first two but I do remember that despite having all 15 volumes on my shelf even back then, I never read the rest of the series. I don't think it was bad, I just never got around to doing it what with school books/reading lists and stuff. I'm gonna have to change that right after re-reading this one.

3.5 but I couldn't possibly drop back to a 3.

One of my absolute favorite series as an adolescent, before I ever was privileged to learn to ride but dreamt about it constantly.

Now that I've had my own horses for over 45 years, I certainly recognized a number of errors and inconsistencies, but I'm going to ignore those or maybe write them off as practices which have been changed since the books were written. I'll also admit that though I've owned two Thoroughbreds off the track (OTTB) the horse racing world is not my favorite discipline of the horse world.

I intend to go back to read the whole series now that my library is finally sort of open (still in online order with no contact pickup because of COVID-19).

FYI I'm going to be posting a similar if not very same review for many of these books with possible minor changes in rating and details specific to each book in the series. Or I may not if feeling lazy.

I've always adored this book as a child and still do on my rereading as an adult!

The beginning felt clunkier than I remembered it, but I was soon swept into the excitement of the narrative.

Nice classic 30's "Boys' Adventure" type tale. I read this way back in elementary school and loved it, and it still holds some charm. A quick one- or two-hour read.