Horses and Heartbeats

In Horses and Heartbeats, Polly Thompson brings you into the lives of the elegant contestants at a hunter-jumper show; the schooling mounts at a boarding stable; and the horses in various states of conditioning that come through a Connecticut auction. One of these, a young mare fresh off the Dakota plains, is destined for Bailey Mason, a green but gutsy teenager. In a summer filled with upsets and success, Bailey and her friends cope with each other’s and the horse’s idiosyncrasies and pool...