Clare Balding branches out into children's fiction with this first novel aimed at readers aged 7+. This is a funny and heartwarming story with wonderful human and animal characters, set in the world of horse racing that Clare knows so well. Horse-mad Charlie is thrilled when her parents buy a race horse, Noble Warrior. But although he looks the part, he just won't gallop. But Charlie is convinced that he's got what it takes - he justs needs the right motivation.