I'm getting the feeling this sort of thing doesn't actually exist, but can anyone recommend some horse fiction that's actually about horses and the riding/training thereof? Rather than horse adjacent drama/romance?
Edit: I appreciate all your help, and I don't mean to be dismissive of older books. But do you have anything more recent?
by turtledov
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Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, maybe? But it’s a 150-year-old book, so don’t ecpect to find contemporary training techniques.
Misty of Chincoteague
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
The Black Stallion series
Uh, it depends on if you want contemporary riding/training, or if any non-human-drama horse book goes! You might like, off the top of my head: War Horse by Michael Marpugo, Horses of the Dawn by Kathryn Lasky, A Horse Named Sky by Roseanne Parry, and maybe even Stand on the Sky by Erin Bow (horses aren’t the main focus, but they’re extremely important to the way of life depicted in the book, so it might be interesting.) These are all middle grade.