Poema is my pride and joy. She was my first horse and she's a competition winner, but she's reached her potential. She'll never be a show jumper, and that's where the money and prestige are to be found. If I'm ever to grow my horse farm into a nationally renowned equestrian centre, I need the cash to expand and upgrade my facilities. Poema is a hoofstep on the path to that future, but she's not going to be able to take me all the way herself.

For all its hand-drawn aesthetics, Horses of Hoofprint Bay has hard realities like the limits of Poema's future bubbling under its surface.…