Buy this book for any boy or girl...but especially for those who have a passion and wonder how they will get past all the challenges facing them. They will be inspired!

Young girls and boys can read about the challenges the first Black female jockey faced, thanks to journalist Sarah Maslin Nir. She has brought this great book about Cheryl White out of the archives and into our hearts. 

Cheryl grew up around horses, her father was a well-known Black horse trainer, and despite her passion and skill for riding, she was not slated to become a jockey. She was a girl, and it was her brother, Raymond White Jr., the co-author of this book, who her father expected to take the reins to victory.  After all, women were not allowed to be jockeys at the time . But Cheryl was a smart girl with passion and skill who never gave up.  She overcame the barriers within her family and in the sport, and in 1971 she became the first Black female jockey in America at the age of 17!  Continue