The Black Stallion's Filly (Black Stallion Series, Book 8)
by:
Walter Farley (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394906089 (039490608X)
Publish date: August 28th 1952
Publisher: Random House Trade
Edition language: English
Series: The Black Stallion (#8)
I like the temperamental Black Minx a lot and enjoyed reading about her training and the frustrations that went along with it. It was an entertaining story.
Farley waxes pretty philosophical in this book about Black Minx, a filly owned by Henry Dailey. There's a lot here about heart, about gameness, about the will to win, and a fair bit about how being up on a horse in the Kentucky Derby will turn a boy into a man. I wonder how all those jockeys who nev...