The wildest horse race in the world
By: by Marguerite Henry ; illustrated by Lynd Ward.
Contributors: Ward, Lynd, 1905-
Publisher: Rand McNally
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Horse racing -- Fiction; Palio Festival, Siena, Italy; Palio di Siena -- Fiction; Italy -- Fiction
Description: A story, based on real events, about a boy and a half-Arabian mare who enter the Palio, an annual race in Siena, Italy, with all the pageantry of a medieval contest.
Notes: Published in 1960 under title: Gaudenzia, pride of the Palio.