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- From: 6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
- Subject: Black Stallion (was Horsey Dinner Theatres...)
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- Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:40:36 GMT
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- Jill wrote (some deleted):
- >The stallion's name is Cass Ole and he is owned by the Cuello family,
- >San Antonio Arabians in San Antonio, Texas. I visited them once, beautiful
- >farm, beautiful horse...
-
- I've often wondered if he was still alive. He was magnificent especially
- running free on the beach! Every horse-crazy teen (of any age) would sigh
- over that, I think!
-
- >>Speaking of Walter Farley and the Black Stallion books, has anyone else
- >>ever wondered how the heck they got an Arabian Stallion in the Kentucky
- >>Derby? ;-) Aw, artistic license. Of course, I think Walter was only 17
- >>when he wrote his first book in the late 30's. Great stuff though!
-
- >Well, OK, I've read the books a billion times in my youth. The race was
- >not the Kentucky Derby, it was a special "match race" between the fastest
- >East coast horse and the fastest West Coast horse. "The Black" got in
- >by appealing to a radio announcer. Also, the book often repeats that
- >the stallion is "too big to be pure Arabian" and that they know nothing
- >about his breeding (since they got him from after the shipwreck and all
- >of the other passengers were drowned.)
-
- No doubt you are right. I seem to remember that too now. There were also
- "sons" of his who were trotting horses, etc., etc., etc. Right?
-
- >Sheesh... scary how much I know about those books and movie. Must have
- >something to do with being a very very horse crazy pre-teen when the movie
- >came out... (8
- >
- > Jill
-
- Well, Jill, you obviously are a "little" younger than I am. But let me
- assure you that long before the movie came out, the books were feeding horsey
- dreams to many a young girl and, I suspect though maybe more secretly,
- many a young boy too. I think we need more of these beautiful, reasonably
- gentle, though exciting, stories to give our children some good dreams
- for a change, IMHO! ;-)
-
- Have you noticed that almost nobody actually picks these books apart?
- Of course, a combination of events like this is pretty well impossible
- but that's what dreams are made of and from dreams, sometimes a kind of
- reality can happen. We finally got our horses, or at least are still
- involved with an interest in horses, aren't we?!
-
- Take care,
-
- Diane, Spring & Dancer
-