Tap Dancing in the Shed Row

About the Book

A sweet farm girl leaves abusive parents and then an abusive husband to set herself on a road to success of becoming a jockey. Along the way, she encounters a couple that accept her and her daughter as family, and grows to love a man that must face and stand up to his father. Because of her patience and unique communication with horses, she calms a temperamental colt and gains his confidence to win the English Grand National aboard him and learns how to pace a special filly enroute to a winning ride in the Kentucky Derby.

About the Author

Ronda Hutchinson lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she enjoys running and mountain biking. Married to Mike, she has a seventeen-year-old daughter, Janelle, from a previous marriage to a jockey. She spent thirteen years working on horse farms in Ocala, working on racetracks along the East Coast, and has worked horse sales in Ocala, Florida, California, and Saratoga. Her days of working with the horses are over, but the memories live on in her mind and heart. An avid animal lover, her constant animal companion is her dog, Tequila, that runs with her in the Sandia Mountains.