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The black stallion's filly

Henry Dailey buys a spoiled, contrary two-year-old filly, a daughter of the Black, in November, and is determined to have a Kentucky Derby candidate by May.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Farley, Walter, 1915-1989
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, c2002.
Series:	Black stallion series.
Subjects:	Horses > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Henry Dailey buys a spoiled, contrary two-year-old filly, a daughter of the Black, in November, and is determined to have a Kentucky Derby candidate by May.
Item Description:	Originally published by Random House, Inc., in 1952. Includes excerpt from The Black Stallion revolts.
Physical Description:	251 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Audience:	RL: 5.2.
ISBN:	0394839161 9780394839165
Author Notes:	Walter Farley was born in Syracuse, New York on June 26, 1915. He began writing The Black Stallion when he was a student at Columbia University and completed it while working as an advertising copywriter in New York City. It was an immediate success when it was published in 1941. During World War II, he served in the army where he wrote the second book in the series, The Black Stallion Returns. After his discharge from the service in 1946, he became a full-time author. He wrote 20 novels in the Black Stallion series. His also wrote a fictionalized biography of America's greatest Thoroughbred, Man O'War. He died of heart failure on October 17, 1989 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography)