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- From: shonette@master.CNA.TEK.COM (Shonette Rogers)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: The Black Stallion (was Re: Horsey DinnerTheatres, what I saw)
- Message-ID: <3922@master.CNA.TEK.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:53:26 GMT
- References: <92322.29954.6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
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- In article <92322.29954.6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
- >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!
- >
- >Diane & Spring & Dancer
-
- Ha! Not only that he was Arabian, but also that he didn't have
- any papers (they had to have been lost on the shipwreck because
- I didn't see/read Alex ever having them). Now I wonder how they
- registered/raced his foals...! :-)
-
- Shonette Rogers
- and Miss Lady Linton
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