John T Foster

The Gallant Gray Trotter

Dodd, Mead & Company 1974

Illustrated by Sam Savitt

The little gray filly didn’t look much, but Lady Suffolk became the most famous trotter of the
mid-nineteenth century.  She did not have an easy career, with ill treatment and unsympathetic
Masters, but Stephen Seven Trees, part Mantauk Indian, cared for her when he could, and helped
by him and Meg Culley and an ex prizefighter, they made the race for the world trotting championship.

John T. Foster worked as a newspaper reporter, and as a technical editor for the New York Ocean Science Laboratory in Montauk, New York. He wrote several books for children, including the Marco series, but just one horse book:  The Gallant Gray Trotter.

Finding the book:  Gallant Gray Trotter was not published, in the UK, but copies are plentiful and cheap in the USA.  Good non library firsts are quite reasonably priced.

Many thanks to Susan Bourgeau for all her help with information on this author and book.

Source:

Dustjacket of The Gallant Gray Trotter.