Her Horseracing Dreams

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A coming-of-age story where the love of horses hard work determination and talent overcome low self-esteem and no family background in horseracing.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>***</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ellie Simpson was mad about horses and ponies. She had been since she was a small child but her mum's income couldn't stretch to riding lessons and she resigned herself to watching horseracing on the telly; the magnificent thoroughbreds and their jockeys becoming her equine and human heroes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It felt like her horsey prayers had been answered when Ellie's mum got a job as a cleaner for a family that owned horses and the daughters took Ellie under their wing giving her riding lessons. When the family moved away Ellie's riding ground to a halt but she decided that when she left school she would follow her dream and work with racehorses.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ellie's story follows her horseracing rollercoaster journey from her first day of working for leading Lambourn flat trainer Max Jones to becoming a valued and respected member of the Valley Stables team and being granted her apprentice jockey licence.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There are bumps in the road and she experiences darker incidents and tragedy that happen not just in horseracing but in life. Ellie's racing career progresses at a whirlwind pace of highs and lows - where the highs reach beyond her wildest dreams...</span></p>