A KENDAL-born racehorse is now starring in a third book about his adventures.

How High The Dream? charts Alexander the chestnut thoroughbred’s latest thrills and spills with his owner, Steven Wright.

It follows on from Run With Your Heart, published in paperback by Racing Post Books in the autumn of last year, and Leap At The Moon, on Amazon Kindle.

Steven, 56, crime reporter with the Bradford Telegraph & Argus, still struggles to shake off his ‘Mr Bean of local equestrianism’ image with the failed steeplechaser.

In his latest book, he is spectacularly bucked off in a showjumping contest, and also watches in horror as Alexander runs off without him, after throwing him down on the road.

How High The Dream? also explores Alexander’s racing heritage. He ran at Dalston under the name Adelphi Warrior after he was born on a farm in Kendal.

The book features Steven’s long-suffering partner Jenny Loweth, who worked on the Westmorland Gazette, and whose parents, Alan and Margaret Ruston, live at Underwood in Kendal.

It also includes Low Fell Stud at Grange-over-Sands where Steven’s great friends Ian and Karen Conroy live. They rescued Alexander after he failed as a racehorse and Alexander’s story is very much bound up with them.

“Alexander and I have come a long way in five years but we still have more than our fair share of thrills and spills. But he has proved to be the companion of a lifetime. I hope the books show how very much an ex-racehorse can give.”

How High The Dream? and Leap At The Moon are on Amazon Kindle for 99p.

Run With Your Heart is £6.50 on Racingpost.com