Riding Horseback in Purple: Re-awakening the Dream of Owning a Horse

Riding Horseback in Purple covers

important phases of learning, including:

- Are you ready for a horse?

- How do you find the right horse?

- How do you prepare for your horse's arrival?

- How do you learn together and build a relationship?



It is increasingly common for mature women to get their first horse-or first horse in decades-around retirement age. Some of these woman-horse matches are successful, but too frequently they don't work out. Such failures can leave women feeling unsuccessful and leave horses in precarious situations. The author has set out to help women connect with great horses so that they can grow, learn, and enjoy active lives as partners with their horses.



Beneath the obvious topic of getting a horse, this book deals with healthy, positive aging; reflections on the nature of leadership; reflections on male and female relationships with horses; and links between work with horses and connection with nature.



The horse breed with the most focus in this book is the Norwegian Fjord, which is strongly tied to Norwegian culture and is the breed in the 2013 Disney Film Frozen.



The book has reviews from experts with equitation, Fjord horses and sustainability. One of the testimonials is from Dr. Allan Hamilton: Professor of Neurosurgery and author of Zen Horse, Zen Mind: "Alice MacGillivray has done us all a great favor by writing: "Riding Horseback in Purple: "She has given us both the exhortation to follow our passion for horses but tempered it with some of the soundest and most sage advice about how to do it. This book should become the bible for those wonderfully enthusiastic middle-aged souls who are pondering whether to return to their life-long passion for horses and finally making the jump into owning a horse of their own!"