Thoroughbred #40: Ultimate Risk

by Mary Newhall Andersen and Mary Newhall Anderson

Book Overview

Don't miss the exciting adventures of a new generation of Thoroughbred horses and riders at Winterbrook Farm A great opportunity... Now that Christine Reese and her cousin Melanie Graham are jockeys, they want to ride as many horses for as many trainers as they possibly can. When Christine is asked to ride a difficult horse for one of the best known trainers in Kentucky, she leaps at the chance to prove herself. But she'll have to race against her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061066346
• ISBN13: 9780061066344
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

I liked this book. It was exciting and i loved Gratis! I think its so cool that she got to show everyone that even jockeys like Steve with lots of experiance can't even do what Christina- a bug- can do!In here though they make it sound like Missy is older than Raven and Rascal, I thought that three years ago Kevin Melinie and Chris took care of them when they were all weenlings? which would mean they are the same age. And CHRIS PICKED GRATIS? I couldn't belive it! I like it but I would never have done that and its hard to belive chris would! This is one of the best books ever! I hope they stay this way!

I love this book!

I absolutly love this book! I think it is one of the best in the whole series! I love how Christina has to decide whether to ride Star or Gratis. I also love how Christina and Melanie get to ride against eachother! And the ending....... though I'll leave that to you to find out! I definatly recommend reading this book!

Excellent book! Excellent!

This is a great book, but for people who are thinking of buying this book(really! they should buy it!) may want to know the edetorial review of this book. I'm writing it here: A great opportunity... Now that Christina Reese and her cousin Melanie Graham are jockeys, they want to ride as many horses for as many trainers as they possibly can. When Christina is asked to ride a diffcult horse for one of the best-known trainers on Kentucky, she leaps at the chance to prove herself. But she'll have to race against her own horse__ Wonder's Star. Is worth the risk?I put this book on the shelf where I keep all my favorite THOROUGBRED books. There's some THOROUGHBRED books that didn't quite make it the favorite shelf though. I have a HATE shelf as well. And for the books that end up there, they hardly get read at all. There's: THE HORSE OF HER DREAMS , MELANIE'S TREASURE , STERLING'S SECOND CHANCE and DYLAN'S CHOICE. They're all on my hate shelf. Partly because I thought that in those books, SOME of the characters were snobby and stuck-up(I hate that). And there's other reasons as well.But this book was a HUGE succes! I'M SERIOUS.

Great!

O.K. - When I first read the book description I thought I'd hate this book - I mean Christina wasn't riding Star. But after reading the book I loved it! I think the bond between Star and Chris is still strong and they make the best pair. Riding Gratis was an important part of Christina's jockey career. She needed to prove to others and herself that she could ride other horses well. I liked the neat plot and good realistic racing. The upcoming books are: #41 Close Call (About Parker and eventing) #42 The Bad Luck Filly (Melanie and the filly Image, who appeared in this book - a relative to Wonder) #43 Fallen Star (not sure what it's about yet. I hope something bad doesn't happen to Star! I want him to win the Triple Crown in his three year old season!)

Attention TB readers!

Anyone wanna know what The Bad Luck Filly is all about? Read this! Melanie Graham just can't help herself. She's fallen in love with the high spirited black filly, Perfect Image. More than anything, Melanie want's to help train the filly and be the first one to race her. But, dispite her name, Image is anything but pefect. The filly has ben spoiled by her own doting owner since birth and is impossible to handle. In fact, her owner wants to give up and turn Image into a broodmare, hoping her foals will have better sense hat she does. Melanie is sure Image was born to win. Will she have the guts to fight for the horse that she loves?