Download or read book The Island Stallion Races written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than anything, Steve Duncan dreams of racing his huge, wild stallion, Flame. The horse is untrained, but incredibly fast and Steve just wants to show him off. When two strangers show up and offer to make Steve’s dream a reality, Steve cannot believe his luck. But soon he realizes that a professional racetrack is no place for an unbroken stallion.
Download or read book The Island Stallion written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Steve Duncan is asked to go on an archeological search on a remote Caribbean island, he never imagines the stallion he will find there. But the giant horse is unapproachable, showing nothing but fear and fury towards people. When the stallion gets caught in quicksand, can Steve get close enough to save the wild horse?
Download or read book The Horse Tamer written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While waiting for a delayed airplane, old Henry Dailey, the Black's trainer, tells young Alec Ramsay a story of his own youth, travelling with his brother, Bill. Bill Dailey's talent as a horse-whisperer was unmatched in the days before the automobile and young Henry tells of an unscrupulous con-man who mistreats horses into behaving temporarily. Bill is determined to show that the man is a fraud, but can he unmask the con without getting hurt?Walter Farley experimented with many genres of writing and here, in his only foray into historical fiction, he weaves a fascinating tale of life when horses were the primary means of transportation.
Download or read book The Black Stallion s Courage written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hopeful Farm burns down, Alec’s dreams for the future go up in smoke. How can he get the money to rebuild? To make matters worse, a strong young colt named Eclipse has taken the racing world by storm, threatening to replace the Black in the hearts of racing fans. Against all odds, Alec sets out to save the farm and prove that the Black is still the greatest race horse of all time! “Everyone loves a champion. And when the champion is a gallant horse, when his story is told by a champion writer of horse stories, every reader is a winner.”—The New York Times
Download or read book The Black Stallion written by Robert Génin and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic strip adaptation of the adventures of a boy and a black stallion who save each others's lives during a shipwreck and go on to fame in the racing world.
Download or read book The Scorpio Races written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook of the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of SHIVER, LINGER AND FOREVER. Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the water... Every November, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth. Thousands gather to watch the horses and the sea that washes the blood from the sand. The mounts are capaill uisce: savage water horses. There are no horses more beautiful, more fearless, more deadly. To race them can be suicide but the danger is irresistible. Sean Kendrick knows the dangers of the capaill uisce. With one foot in the ocean and one on land, he is the only man on the island capable of taming the beasts. He races to prove something both to himself and to the horses. Puck Connolly enters the races to save her family. But the horse she rides is an ordinary little mare, just as Puck is an ordinary girl. When Sean sees Puck on the beach he doesn't think she belongs. He doesn't realize his fate will become entwined in hers. They both enter the Races hoping to change their lives. But first they'll have to survive.
Download or read book The Island Stallion s Fury written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Steve Duncan and his friend Pitch know of the valley hidden behind the high cliffs of the remote Caribbean Azul Island. And only the two of them know of the beautiful, purebred horses that live there, under the watchful eye of the great red stallion, Flame. But when Pitch’s half-brother Tom learns of this lost paradise, he will stop at nothing to make it his own, even if he has to destroy it.
Download or read book The Black Stallion Mystery written by Walter Farley and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. The arrival of three strikingly handsome colts in the U.S. leads Alec Ramsey to believe that the sire of his world-famous black stallion is still alive.
Download or read book The Black Stallion s Ghost written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1995-04-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While riding the Black in the Everglades one day, Alec meets a man astride a ghostly gray mare. Alec’s fascination with the man turns to fear as he realizes the man is dangerously close to insanity. Soon Alec and the Black are caught up in a deadly chase through the depths of the Everglades, where a misstep could be fatal.
Download or read book The Black Stallion Challenged written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Stallion is the fastest horse in America and he and his jockey, Alec Ramsay, are training for a big race. Suddenly there comes a new challenger: Flame! An unproven racer, the Island Stallion can run like the wind and his jockey, Steve Duncan, knows that Flame will give the Black the race of his life. But what neither Steve nor Alec know, is that these two stallions have met before, and they hate each other.
Download or read book The Black Stallion Challenged written by Walter Farley and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec Ramsey and the Black are training for a big race when they suddenly face a new challenger: Flame, the red stallion being ridden by Steve Duncan. What Alec and Steve don't know is that Flame and the Black have met before--and despise one another.
Download or read book Son of the Black Stallion written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alec receives the Black Stallion’s first son as a gift, he believes his dreams have come true, but Satan’s savage arrogance makes him dangerous and unpredictable. Still, Alec is resolved to gain the fiery colt’s trust, even if he must risk his life to do it.
Download or read book Black Stallion and Satan written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1992-04-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan has won the Triple Crown, yet Alec still misses the Black, who’s living in Arabia with Sheikh Abu Ishak. Unexpectedly, Alec receives word that the sheikh has died and has left the Black to Alec. A race between the Black and Satan is inevitable, but unexpected events put the horses in the path of a raging forest fire. Suddenly, they are racing for their lives.
Download or read book Born to Trot written by Marguerite Henry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.
Download or read book The Black Stallion Picture Book written by Walter Farley and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue their adventures continue in America.
Download or read book The Black Stallion and the Lost City written by Steve Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alec and the Black are hired to work as stunt doubles in a film about Alexander and his horse, Bucephalus, they find themselves on set in the remote mountains of the Greek/Bulgarian border. Movie making involves a lot of waiting, so they set out for a morning of exploring. Chasing an elusive albino mare, the two find themselves caught in an underground river which drops them, half-drowned, beside a city lost in time. Revered at first, they soon discover that they are intended as the entertainment at a horrific ritual . . . sacrifices to the legendary flesh-eating mares in the coloseum of King Diomedes. Another thrilling new Black Stallion novel by Walter Farley's son, which proves that the art of writing a great horse story is definitely in the genes!
Download or read book The Black Stallion Returns written by Walter Farley and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1991-08-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the second book in the series, the heart-stopping adventures of the Black Stallion continue as Alec discovers that two men are after the Black. One claims to be the Black’s rightful owner and one is trying to kill the beautiful steed. An Arab chieftain proves his ownership of the Black and takes him away, but Alec is determined to find his horse again. Following the pair to Arabia, Alec encounters great evil and intrigue, as only a horse as spectacular as the Black could inspire.
