Thoroughbred Book Series by Joanna Campbell

[DodgerGirl]

In 1991 we were introduced to a young girl who longed to become a jockey when moving to a new farm is scary for her when her parents had to sell their old farm and her horse but a sick foal shows the girl friendship and the power to believe in your dreams. That is the beginning of the Thoroughbred series and the girl was named Ashleigh Griffen and the horse became Ashleigh's Wonder "Wonder for short". Since it's debut book A Horse Called Wonder the Thoroughbred book series created by Joanna Campbell became the bestselling horse book series of all time. And all throughout the series new characters were introduced Ashleigh gets married and had a daughter named Christina who became a jockey too after trying her hand at eventing. And the Thoroughbred series had spun-off three Super Editions a spin-off series called Ashleigh which follows Ashleigh at ages nine and ten and Ashleigh's Thoroughbred Collection which is a collection of non-Thoroughbred horse stories. I loved this series and I don't know why they ended it and I still have my Thoroughbred books and read them today but I wish they made a comeback with new books
Did you ever read this series growing up?

 

[DodgerGirl]

I think that Harper-Collins Publishers should bring back the Thoroughbred book series because it was a great horse book series. I accidentally discovered the Thoroughbred book series when I was at a thrift shop looking for The Saddle Club books when two Thoroughbred books caught my eye and I got the first one from the shelf and thought it was a cool series about horse racing and I bought both books and got hooked on Thoroughbred books ever since and I started learning about the Kentucky Derby due to this book series. I think why this series ended was because Thoroughbred went through many changes because if you look at the first books Joanna Campbell actually wrote them but when the Thoroughbred series changed to various authors the series went downhill. But when they created characters such as Parker Townsend "who is not Brad Townsend's real son because in the earlier books Brad's son is actually named Lawrence Ross Townsend but called Ross" and he only appeared shortly in the books as an infant. A second thing they did was make trilogies of books like the Wonder's Legacy trilogy and the Cindy's Lost Diary specials. But Thoroughbred was an amazing book series that should be revived someday in the future