Covering the time from which Sonora’s mother convinced her to respond to Doc Carver’s advertisement for an “attractive young woman who can swim and dive.
With all those disclaimers and uncomfortable admissions out of the way, let me just say that if you loved Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, you probably need to read A Girl and Five Brave Horses by Sonora Carver, as told by Elizabeth Land. There’s parts of it (really big, important parts) I don’t like (injuries, slaughter), but there’s also parts (horses) I really enjoy watching.
It’s good the show got cancelled because now I won’t have to square the fact that, had the diving horse show been resurrected, I probably would have been tempted to go and then would have felt bad about watching it. I’m still struggling with how to balance my adoration of that film and my utter intrigue with diving horses with my immense relief the ill-advised attempt to bring the diving horse show back to Atlantic City was scrapped, most likely because of the huge outcry from animal protection organizations. Let me first admit it right now: as a girl, I LOVED the movie based on this book, Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. Meanwhile, I’ve been distracting myself from the Triple Crown excitement with Sonora Carver’s memoir, A Girl and Five Brave Horses. Which is to say, stay tuned for my next review, when you can either drown your Triple Crown sorrows or toast the first Triple Crown winner in (my) memory with a book all about Affirmed and Alydar! But I sort of accidentally started another book that was substantially shorter and finished that one first.Īlas, I have not yet mastered the ability of reading two books at once or while riding or writing.
You know, a book about Affirmed, the last winner of the Triple Crown because I wanted to gear up for the next winner of the Triple Crown. So, I meant to finish and review a totally different book this week: The Duel for the Crown: Affirmed, Alydar, and Racing’s Greatest Rivalry. Erin McCabe is back with the diving horse tale of Sonora Carver, A Girl and Five Brave Horses.
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