Emily Brooks

Emily Brooks is a pseudonym for the authors Penelope Hall & Ann LaFarge.  Riding High is a novel aimed at adults.  It’s set in the 1920s.

Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph.

Finding the book:  findable, but not hugely common.  There was a UK printing, but it’s not massively easy to track down.

Bibliography - horse books only

Riding High

Poseidon Press, New York, 1989, 400 pp.

Century, London, 1990

Charles "Wirelegs" Manville and Conrad Miles are given graduation gifts of 500 acres of "scrag land" next to both
their families' estates in Edgeville, N.Y   They compete to win the other’s stake:  he who jumps the most fences
in the next 50 years" will win all 1000 acres.  50 years later Wirelegs is terminally ill.  His daughter Carlin is unhappy.
Conrad is impotent.  No one cares about the bet, but they do care about Wirelegs’ will.

A review on Ponydom.