Sorry, never heard of black stallion…is it like black beauty (my fav book when I was little along with call of the wild)

Black Stallion movie is awesome. The boy riding bare back on the beach……..! Didn’t realise there was a book series thou. Love the thread title he he he!

I read all the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley when I was a kid.  Recently I watched the movies that are out and related to the stories- although the movies are not new- I just “discovered” I could get them thru my Blockbuster service.

I was obsessed with horse books when I was a kid.  At school we had a catalog that came out monthly that we could order off at at reduced prices- and I bought every horse book.  LOL.

I am still a book junkie- although not so much with horses anymore- although I still love a good horse read. 

the Black Stallion series was almost all I would read over n over too.   The one with the white stallion named Thunderhead.  I still have dreams about those books. 

When our book reports were due once I did one on a black stallion book I had read earlier and did a report on it already.  I was sad when the teacher told me I had to have a new book I couldn’t do another report on a book I already reported on.

And the white fang series.  Yeah.  I had Black Beauty book too.

When my Mom went to hairdressing school she would bring me and ohh I hated going. Til I got into the magazines and cut out every horse picture in those magazines.  I made a scrapbook of them.  After a while people started complaining the pages had holes in them heheee. I cut the pics out of the newspapers when it would have an article or a horse race in it.

Me and Janet were horse nuts alright. My dad played a bad trick on me.  HE said if I lived with him he would buy me a horse.  Well at 16 he came got me and teased me yeah I will buy you a horse a rocking horse.  He was picking and would make me mad.  He picked on my bro’s fiancee so bad she would cry.  So I ran away I couldn’t take all the cigarette smoke and the drinking.  The  living room had a blue cloud in it.  Just couldn’t take it.  Dad thought it was funny.  Plus he let a known molester stay with him.  So yep I left.

I also collected all those little plastic toy horses.  I had 63 and each one had a name too. I had a list of all their names.  And when I would find one that a tail had been broken off I would cut my barbie dolls hair run tape around it and glue the hair on the horse so it would have a tail.  Hehee. It looked pretty good too.

OH I even had a small plastic toy horse named The Black Stallion.  Then the Briar horses came out. Yeah !!!!

I was well I forget but was in 1992 that I got my horse. A quarter horse.  A gorgeous young chestnut.  His name was Johnny.  I would talk about how great he looked beautiful muscles and chestnut.  My co workers thougth I was fooling around on my husband ahahaa.

Someone showed me a picture of a gorgeous white muscular horse with  Arnold schwarsenegger sittin on it. I paid the man no mind and oooohd and aaaahhd over the beautiful horse.  My friend laughed and said yep a true horse lover. Forget the man give me the horse.

I’ve read The Black Stallion, Saddle Club, Blue Ribbon, those Thoroughbred ones, pretty near every one with horses!!

I was totally the horse-girl dork too! LOVED the Black Stallion! And all of Margeurite Henry’s books…anything horsey, basically.

I had half the winners of the Kentucky Derby memorized for a while…

Cal. State University at Pomona, which was local to me, has an Arabian Horse program (The land for the campus came as a grant from WK Kellogg–as in Kellogg-brand cereal–and he collected and bred Arabians from all over the world. He left the state of California the land with the stipulation that it be used for a school campus, and that the Arabian ranch be maintained–how cool is that?!). I used to go EVERY Sunday as a kid (it was like my version of church, I guess!), and take POUNDS of carrots, all chopped up, and visit every single horse. I’d teach their prize-winning dressage horses dumb tricks, like how to nod their heads “yes” for a carrot…

The students doing barn-chores (who looked very old and intimidating to me when I was 10!) would sort of roll their eyes and let me do my thing…

So, yeah, I’m totally with you!

I was the same way at school as a kid, my name was actually “Pony Girl” all of junior high. EVERYTHING in my room was horses, my wall was covered top to bottom with pics of horses.

I loved and still love, any horse books. I have about 100 Saddle Club books that I’m saving to give my daughter if I ever have one. I love all the Marguerite Henri books (Justin Morgan being my fave cuz my horse is a Morgan). I love the Black Beauty movie. I cry EVERY time I watch it and I can recite every word by heart (I’ve been watching it regularly for over 10 years now!).