Equestrian autobiography book recommendations

'Fighting Back' by Georgina Colthurst. Have read it once and am currently re-reading it. It's a great book. Google search says it can be found at Amazon UK.

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"Synopsis
At 7.30 on a hot June morning in 1977 Georgina Colthurst was schooling one of her horses prior to her first international Three-Day Event, before dashing back home to change into her school uniform on her way to take her 'O' levels. At 7.31 she lay totally paralysed - in a tangle of jumping-poles. After weeks of examination and diagnosis, two of Britain's finest neurologists tried to break it to her parents that Georgina, even if she survived and regained her speech, might remain at least partially paralysed, with the mental ability of a child. There was no certain cure and not much hope of any significant improvement. But they had reckoned without the extraordinary courage and determination of Georgina and her family in the face of this shattering prognosis. With the help of conventional and unconventional medicine, tape-recordings of her home life, the patience of friends and experts, and especially her horses, Georgina first emerged from her seven-week coma and then not only fully recovered her speech and the use of her body, but even more remarkably, is now back in contention for eventing honours."
 
HRH Princess Anne - it is called Riding Through My Life and documents her life with horses. Lots of lovely pictures, including ones of mum taking her out on her pony! Talks about childhood ponies, how she got into eventing, the European championship, the olympics and meeting Mark Phillips but also things like the RDA, riding mules with Valerie Singleton, her racing career and her children.
 
Even if your not interested in racing some of the racing ones, mc coy, dettori, paul nicholls, andrew balding, richard johnson, timmy murphy are all very good and ones about arkle, mill reef and dessie are all great too
 
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