Thoroughbred #72: Legacy's Gift

by Mary Newhall Anderson

Allie, now sixteen years old, is just one win away from becoming a full-fledged jockey. Everyone gathers at Tall Oaks to celebrate her achievement. At the festivities the jockeys and trainers reminisce about their favorite horses past and future. Inspired more than ever by their tales, Allie and her horse Wonder's Legacy set out for Whisper-wood to perfect their jumping skills and to look after a broodmare named Sterling Dream that is due to foal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060781173
• ISBN13: 9780060781170
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The last story

This was the BEST HORSE BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ!!!!! I was very sad when I read the last word. I mean they didn't have a ending! What is Allie's Wonder going to be, a racer or eventer? What happens to Christina and Parker? Don't they get married?? Well, I've have read every book except #42 and #56. I have only rated 2 or 3 books with 3 stars. All the other's were GREAT!!!! I wish they ending it differently though. I mean, your ENDING THE BOOKS why didn't you end it with all of the old charaters? I mean couldn't you add a closing chapter that says " 20 years later......." and tells what happens. I HOPE THAT YOU RESTART THE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!! READ THESE BOOKS, THEY HAVE MADE BE SO MUCH SMARTER IN MY HORSE KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!

Please read this, Harper Collins

I am 12 years old and started reading these books 2 years ago. I liked them right off because of the fact that the books were written for girls around 10 to perhaps 14 (despite the fact that they are rated for 8 to 12 year olds) that were mature. I mean, most the time the girls in the TB books act mature, and don't do stupid things like become overly obsessed with guys and fashion. I feel that us, mature readers, can relate to that. I liked these books also because they focused on racing. Because of these books, I know want to be a jockey one day. And now, you're ending this cherished series??? What??? Don't you want other girls to want to become something else then those really popular, perhaps unrealistic careers? (singers, models, etc.) I have to say that ending this series is an act of immaturity and, maybe, laziness??? By ending this series, you are ending my DREAMS!!! (And many other kid's dreams too!!!) Please, reconsider your decision.

My views

I think they are making everyone age so fast, and everything, is because different authors are writing the books now, and have been for a while. I have heard nothing about the series ending. Ive been reading these books since they began, and I am currently 26. I still enjoy them.

cool

it is really sad about how the series are ending.......i really liked the books

Longish

I havce not read this book, but i don't understand why the made Allie age two years and it seems like the last book in the other Series, how a mare goes off heavy in foal. Allie seems to be every where and she helps out everyone. What happens to all the other people in the time of two years, or something. Other than that i think that this will make a good book. Pity about the series ending. But it might be for the best, because all people seem to be doing to the other books is complaing about them. Have a nice read