• 565,000 spectators viewed the World Equestrian Games in June 2015.
• USEF (United States Equestrian Federation) has approximately 80,000 paid annual memberships, and USHJA (United States Hunter Jumper Association) has 35,000.
• The author and and her husband have top connections in the show jumping world, including Olympic riders.
• The author’s brothers in law run a top international horse show in Ontario, Canada: Angelstone Tournaments.
• Reed Kessler, the youngest American Olympic show jumper, has created a great interest in the sport; many of Reed’s followers (93k on Facebook; 26.3k on Twitter; 57.1k on Instagram) will relate well to this book’s heroine, Brynn.
