The Last Diving Horse in America

"It was the signature attraction of Atlantic City's Steel Pier from the 1930s to the 1970s: ... Doc Carver's High Diving Horses. Four times a day, seven days a week, a trained horse ... ran up a ramp; a diving girl jumped on its back, and both sailed forty feet through the air, plunging into a ... tank of water. Decades later, after cries of animal abuse, ... the act was finally shuttered and the very Last Atlantic City Steel Pier Diving Horse was on the auction block, with the author on a rescue mission. And $2,600 later, Gamal ... was hers: she who knew almost nothing about horses. Cynthia Branigan tells the story of how horse and new owner come to know and educate and trust one another, teaching each other important lessons of living and loving"--