The A Circuit 04- Rein It In (27 page)
And that was good enough for her.
I want to acknowledge every horse and pony I ever had the chance to compete with at Indoors. Thank you for all the hours spent trying to qualify, for putting up with my mistakes, for always trying your best, and for knowing when it was time to shine.
A special thank-you to Jetsetter (“Jet”) and Diplomacy (“Henry”). Jet, thank you for giving me my first championship at an Indoor. You gave me the confidence to go back every year. Thank you for proving to me that I can do it if I try hard enough. Without that first win, I would have been tempted to give up other years. Henry, you taught me to work hard and to believe in myself, but also to never think too much of myself or take a class for granted, and of course to save the best for last. I will never forget the moment I first laid eyes on you and the way I lost my breath for a few seconds. As I always said to you, I knew when I met you that something special was going to happen.
Thank you also to all my friends at Spence. Thank you for always welcoming me back to school after a long weekend of
showing as if I had never been gone, for being so supportive of my riding, and for making me feel included in everything that I missed while I was away at shows. Thank you for celebrating with me when I had a good show, for helping me forget and move on from a bad show, and for loving me just the same either way. I would never have made it through my junior career without you.
Georgina Bloomberg
Georgina Bloomberg
is the younger daughter of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. An accomplished equestrian, Georgina is on the board of directors of the Equestrian Aid Foundation, the United States Equestrian Federation, the Hampton Classic Horse Show, Animal Aid, and both the Bloomberg Family and Bloomberg Sisters foundations. She is an Equine Welfare Ambassador for the ASPCA, a member of Friends of Finn for the Humane Society of the United States, as well as a member of the HSUS Horse Council. In 2006, she founded the charity The Rider’s Closet, which collects used riding clothes for those who are unable to afford them. Now run by Pegasus Therapeutic Riding, the program has enabled thousands of riders to stay in the sport and have the proper apparel and equipment. She is a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Georgina is donating a portion of her proceeds from this book to Gallop NYC.
Catherine Hapka
has published many books for children and young adults, including several about horses. A lifelong horse lover, she rides several times per week and keeps three horses on her small farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In addition to writing and riding, she enjoys animals of all kinds, reading, gardening, music, and travel.
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Copyright © 2013 by Georgina Bloomberg
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First published in the United States of America in August 2013
by Bloomsbury Children’s Books
Electronic edition published in August 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bloomberg, Georgina.
Rein it in : an A circuit novel / by Georgina Bloomberg and Catherine Hapka.
pages cm
Summary: Only the best of the best qualify for Indoors, a series of fall horse shows.
And of course, Tommi, Kate, and Zara are the best. Still, it’s not exactly convenient
that this show series starts up just as school is back in session.
[1. Horse shows—Fiction. 2. Horsemanship—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Wealth—Fiction.]
I. Hapka, Cathy. II. Title.
PZ7.B62345Re 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2013008988
eISBN: 978-1-6196-3103-8
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