Forward motion

by H. M. Menino

In Forward Motion Menino traces the unique and lengthy history of the fellowship between humans and horses, using the Olympic equestrian sports as a narrative backdrop. She focuses on three leading American riders: Anne Kursinski, one of a handful of trainers who dominate the high-rolling, touch-and-go realm of show jumping (and who qualified for the Olympic team as this book was going to press); Keith Taylor, young and daring, hurdling financial obstacles in order to. Participate in combined training at the international level; and Lendon Gray, an iconoclastic perfectionist and enthusiastic performer who believes that dressage is the way to fulfillment for any person on any horse. Menino directs her penetrating eye at their horses with equal interest: the urbane show jumper Eros, who calculates the way people work and the way rails roll; Play Me Right, a catlike old campaigner whose definition of pleasure is speed; his young. Stablemate Faktor, who reluctantly gives up clowning for te