The Wildest Horse Race in the World

By Marguerite Henry

Subjects: Horse racing, Fiction, Palio Festival, Siena, Italy, Palio di Siena (Festival) (Siena, Italy), Juvenile 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.