Horses Around My Heart

   Horses Around My Heart, about horses that have been special in the author´s life, is the second Borealis Press publication for Mary Burpee. Her first book, Musk Oxen of Gango, delighted readers of all ages.   Darky, a horse that once out-raced the stork and the doctor´s new Buick, considered it his duty to chase strange horses and small children out of his pasture, became a Pegasus for a little girl.   Jack is a school pony of many quirks.   Rowdy is a work horse that when saddled saw itself as a Knight´s great white charger but was a dismal failure at herding gophers.   Paddy might have made a school pony if it hadn´t had a phobia for chasing cars.   Pompey, a Morgan with a "little bit of Arabian blood," helped head the author towards her destiny. Khem, an Arabian stallion that made dreams come true, had to live with a nightmare.