The Black Stallion's Filly
by:
Walter Farley (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780613708869 (0613708865)
Publish date: June 1st 1978
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 251
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...