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Leaping Hearts
Jessica Bird

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Copyright 2002
370 pages
ISBN: 0804119880
Romance
In Print
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(jumping) Headstrong heiress buys rebel horse

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A champion rider, made bitter by a horrible accident. A daughter estranged from her wealthy family after she bought a rebel horse without their consent. Will she win the big prize with her magnificent stallion?

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Well, I finished it., by WonderPony on August 09, 2004

It was ok, not great, but not horribly horrible, either. Good light fluff for at the beach when I also had to keep an eye on my son.

There were a fair amount of inacduracies. In addition to the bedding on fresh dirt, there was: feeding the stallion armfuls of grass in his stall and bringing down armfuls of hay from the hayloft (I prefer bales, myself. It's easier.). My favorite, however, had to be when the heroine took a tumble at "the mound." I'm not quite sure what kind of jump a mound is, but apparently, it's a dangerous one.

Poorly researched, by Foxhound on April 15, 2004

The horse was 4, and she was taking him to some big show that was the only selection trial for the Olympics. When the horse got mad, he would let out a "howl of anger" and pace around his stall, which was kept bedded with "fresh dirt." To top it all off, the heroine's love interest is her heterosexual male trainer. Talk about unrealistic. (kidding!) The author needed to do more research than just driving past a farm.