Record Added: 8/15/2013 Series The Black Stallion Setting  United States Topic Nature: Birds, Animals, F Publisher Random House Publishers I Year 1949 Age 9-12 Pages 208 Description Black binding, gold & red
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Abu Ben Ishak, the arabian owner of Shetan, dies while riding Shetan, the Black as Alec calls him. In his will, he gives the horse back to Alec. Alec learns of how he had died and is sadden by the death of the Sheik. He later learns of the race that he had placed Shetan in. Alec decides to keep the Black in the race until the day that the Black attacks another race horse on the track; makes Alec remove him from the race.
It is a race that no one will see. For the others realizes that the race that they been entered in has been cancelled for one of the other racehorses has become ill with a deadly disease and is soon put down. All the horses were removed from the track to another location where soon a forest fire now threatens the very lives of those horses and Alec. It is a race for their very lives as they flee the forest fire. |
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