Following in the hoofprints of The Flying Horse, Pulitzer Prize nominee Sarah Maslin Nir and Raymond White Jr.’s The Jockey & Her Horse is the second one title in the Once Upon a Horse series. Illustrated with black-and-white art by Laylie Frazier, it’s inspired by the actual story of the first Black female jockey, Cheryl White, who raced to the finish line on her horse, Jetolara.
Cheryl loves horses. She’s been studying thoroughbreds at her circle of relatives’s horse-racing stables since she used to be sufficiently old to ride at the shoulders of her father, a famous horse trainer. Cheryl wants to be a jockey. One problem—she is a girl, and there has never been a Black female jockey in history!
Jetolara is a young thoroughbred finding his place in the herd. When Cheryl literally falls onto his back and Jeto sprints off around the pasture, Cheryl discovers that she doesn’t just need to be a jockey, she
is a jockey—and she and Jeto were born to race. Together, girl and horse make history and show everyone that once you discover ways to love yourself, the world is yours.
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