Racing Manhattan

"Alone in the world, Jay Barton is a teenage misfit with nothing much going for her besides an extraordinary talent for understanding racehorses--and riding them. In a desperate attempt to escape her unpalatable trickster uncle, Jay leaves home to work at a racing stable, where she forms a bond with a beautiful gray mare named Manhattan--brilliant, misunderstood, dangerous, and headed for racing's scrap heap. Jay recognizes a fellow misfit and fights to give Manhattan one last opportunity to show she is is the champion she was born to be"--Dust jacket.