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After being injured while racing in Ireland’s famous Foster Stakes, the Black and Alec head to the Irish coast to recuperate. While there, they are charmed by the pleasant people and intrigued by tales of the kelpie, a shape-shifting creature of myth who carries unsuspecting riders off to a watery grave. Alec meets a lonely local girl, Mora, who has found a stray pony. Alec, recognizing her love of horses, teaches her to ride. But when Mora disappears, Alec realizes that she has been carried off by the mythical kelpie. Now, Alec and the Black must race the shape-shifter, not realizing that if they lose, not only will Mora be lost forever, but so will the Black.
In Farley's third contribution to The Black Stallion series begun by his father, Alec Ramsey and the Black return to Ireland. Just after accepting an invitation to an Irish stakes race, Alec and his famous racehorse take a final ride along the beach, where they encounter a terrified girl on a wild, dangerous horse. To Alec's astonishment, rider and horse gallop into the sea and vanish beneath the waves. Alec learns that the apparition matches Celtic folktales of the mythic kelpie, a shape-shifting water spirit that can take the form of a horse in order to possess a rider and drown him (or her) in the sea. After the Black suffers a slight injury in the race, Alec and his horse retire to a quiet stable on the Irish seacoast where the Black can recuperate before making the long return trip. At the remote Irish farmstead, the supernatural element that had been introduced in the novel's first scene returns with a vengeance. A mysterious gypsy has a sinister fixation upon the Black. A stray pony displays unaccountable aggression toward Alec and then runs out of control with Mora, a local girl Alec had befriended. Racing the Black along the seashore to rescue Mora from the runaway pony, Alec soon finds that he and the Black are in as much danger as Mora. Although not as well-written as Walter Farley's novels, this atmospheric, supernatural, horse-racing mystery will be popular with fans of the original series Reviewer: Walter Hogan
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