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(More customer reviews)Andy Bard is a 15 year old girl who would like to have a horse of her own.
She is doing her best to help her mother take on dude visitors to ad money to the coffers. Luis turns out to be an uninvolved great foreman and he works with Andy and her brother, "Jumpin' Jack" and sister, Val.
Don't know where her nickname of "Muz" for her mother comes in but it fits.
While waiting for some "dudes" to show up - up drives an old man with a horse trailer. Both driver and trailer have seen hard times. "Pop" seems to be in the throws of a heart attack.
Andy, Luis and Muz pitch in to help "Pop".
Andy's excitement knows no end when they unload the Blue Roan Quarter horse stallion to put him into a stall.
Eventually Andy finds that she will some day inherit "Blue" but try to find the proof when she needs it.
"Blue" has been run on the race tracks before greed and spite got him barred. But is seems that the blue roan stallion has a very strong instinct for cutting cattle.
Oh, does the trouble start -- enter Jay Whitcomb and his family - a wonderful summer under Luis's guidance and a continued search for "Blue's" registration papers. Then come the cattle cutting.
And then Andy meets up with Ross Cameron and his cream colored Quarter horse mare. Of course Blue beats her.
Then "Pop's" shiftless son turns up to claim "Blue" - what a tangle. Great story - well paced - and hard to put down.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Those of us that love horses [of any kind] will thoroughly enjoy this book [even if it is a Quarter horse - a tribute to the author for making it so good]
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