By Walter Farley
ISBN-10: 0307804917
ISBN-13: 9780307804914
Prior to Secretariat and Seabiscuit, guy o’ struggle set the traditional for horse racing.
Walter Farley, the writer of the Black Stallion, chronicles the mightiest racer ever visible on an American racetrack from his surging energy and blistering velocity to his overwhelming wish to run!
Here is the unofficial biography of the “red giant,” from the instant he was once foaled via all of his racing triumphs. successful an miraculous 20 of his 21 starts off, guy o’ struggle grew to become a legend, and captured the guts of a country earlier than he retired in 1920 to sire difficult Tack, the daddy of Seabiscuit, and Triple Crown winner struggle Admiral.
With his seamless storytelling, Farley tells the lifestyles tale of the pony so much horse fans proceed to treat as America’s maximum thoroughbred. instructed throughout the eyes of a fictional stableboy, Danny Ryan, Farley makes the complex global of the “Sport of Kings” obtainable and fascinating to horse enthusiasts and racing lovers of every age.