Dallas Public Library

Racing Manhattan, Terence Blacker

eng

no index present

12-19, Brodart

7-12, Brodart

fiction

Racing Manhattan

1002288363

Terence Blacker

Publisher Annotation: Alone in the world, Jay Barton is a teenage misfit with nothing much going for her besides an extraordinary talent for understanding racehorses and riding them like a pro. When, in a desperate attempt to escape her shifty, opportunistic uncle, she leaves home to work in a racing stable, Jay forms a bond with a beautiful gray mare named Manhattan ? brilliant, misunderstood, dangerous, and heading for racing's scrap heap. Recognizing a fellow misfit, Jay fights to give Manhattan one last opportunity to show that she?s the champion she was born to be. Together they face a world of prejudice and cruelty, fighting back the only way they know how ? by becoming the best

adolescent