Pedigree unknown

By Dorothy Lyons

While devoting her energy to rehabilitating a mistreated gelding in the aftermath of her broken engagement, Jill discovers that fancy pedigrees are not essential to the success of either people or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152601708
• ISBN13: 9780152601706
• Release Date: February 1973
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A HORSE ORIONTED ROMANCE

Jill Howell is in the midst of planning her wedding [at 19] to a scion of the upper crust in hunting country.Hadley continually tells Jill that blue blood will tell, in horse or person.Most of the time the highlight of the day is when they ride to the hounds in fox hunting territory.There are great descrptions of the jumping and riding and the characters that blend well in a story of moneyed blue-bloods with their horses.Working for Hadley, training and exercising his hunters, is a young man from Texas, Dirk Martin.Jill's father is running for public office and therein starts an excellent tale, with Jill finding out the he is not her father.She feels the need to break off the wedding plans as she realizes that Hadley put too much stock in pedigree. Suddenly hers is unknown.In her hurt she stumbles upon a gray broken-down nag and rescues the gelding.Dirk takes an interest in the gray, she names Granite and shows up to help encourage Jill in helping the gelding to recover.Which soon leads to more jumping and Jill getting back in the swing of social life with horses and a plan to win Hadley back.Only the thought of losing Dirk finally wakes Jill up to the shallowness of her life. Yahoo! and away she goes!Quite an Excellent story.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED with no reservations.