Brief description:
From the dust jacket:
From the time he was old enough to stand up, Top Kick was an unusually lively and smart little colt. At the Army Remount Depot where he began his life, he astonished the stable sergeant by jumping over the pasture fence when he was only two weeks old, thereby earning the name he lived up to ever after. The first two years of his life Top Kick spent in growing, play ing with the other colts, and getting into mischief. Then he began the long, careful training necessary to make a good cavalry horse, and under the wise guidance of Lieutenant Bayley and Muggins, the Colonel's daughter, he became the best jumper at the fort. His training completed, Top Kick went with Hayley to the Philippines for peace-time maneuvers on Bataan. Then bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, and Top Kick went into active service. In the days that followed, both horse and rider had opportunity to prove themselves true soldiers.
The wife of an Army Colonel, Mrs. Watson brought a thorough knowledge of army life and a great love of horses to the writing of this unusual story. General Olmstead, who wrote the foreword, is well qualified to judge the book: he is an expert horseman and highest ranking oflicer of the Signal Corps.
From the time he was old enough to stand up, Top Kick was an unusually lively and smart little colt. At the Army Remount Depot where he began his life, he astonished the stable sergeant by jumping over the pasture fence when he was only two weeks old, thereby earning the name he lived up to ever after. The first two years of his life Top Kick spent in growing, play ing with the other colts, and getting into mischief. Then he began the long, careful training necessary to make a good cavalry horse, and under the wise guidance of Lieutenant Bayley and Muggins, the Colonel's daughter, he became the best jumper at the fort. His training completed, Top Kick went with Hayley to the Philippines for peace-time maneuvers on Bataan. Then bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, and Top Kick went into active service. In the days that followed, both horse and rider had opportunity to prove themselves true soldiers.
The wife of an Army Colonel, Mrs. Watson brought a thorough knowledge of army life and a great love of horses to the writing of this unusual story. General Olmstead, who wrote the foreword, is well qualified to judge the book: he is an expert horseman and highest ranking oflicer of the Signal Corps.
Publication
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., (1942) 1st,Hdbk,DJ,,Exc