Steven Farley’s Black Stallion Books

The Black Stallion’s Steeplechaser

Random House, hb, 1997

Black Storm, sired by the Black Stallion, is everything a racehorse should be: fast, strong and brave,
but unfortunately unpredictable Alec is the only one who has not give up on the colt, and thinks
steeplechasing is the ideal thing: it will challenge the colt into behaving. Unfortunately Alec is thrown
in their first race, and Henry threatens to sell him. The farm is losing money, so Alec has to win his
next race.

The Black Stallion’s Shadow

Random House, pb, 2000

The Black wins the Americas cup at Santa Ana, but one of his opponents had a fatal fall in the race after
shying at a shadow.  As a result, the Black is left with a terror of shadows, which could bring his career
to an end.
 

The Black Stallion and the Shape Shifter

Random House, hb, 2009, hb
Random House, pb, 2010

Alec Ramsay and the Black were inured racing in Ireland’s Foster Stakes, so head to the Irish coast to
recuperate.  While there, Alec meets lonely Mora, who has found a stray pony.  He teaches her to ride, but she
then disappears, only for the locals to announce that she has been taken by the kelpie, a shape shifting creature.
The kelpie, apparently, wants a black stallion for itself.

The Young Black Stallion Series

1.  The Promise

2.  A Horse Called Raven

3.  The Homecoming

4.  Wild Spirit

5. The Yearling

6.  Hard Lessons

7.  South Wind Spring

8.  Storm

Steven Farley has carried on where his father left off.  He completed the last of the Black Stallion series (The Young Black Stallion) with his father, and has since written three more titles in the Black Stallion series.

He has also produced a spin off series:  The Young Black Stallion.  This is about a girl called Danielle Connors, who used to live in the horse farm Alec bought.  She is furious at having to move out, particularly as her parents have sold her horse Redman along with the farm.  The series deals with her gradual thawing and her relationships with different horses at the farm.

The Promise

Random House, pb, 1998

Danielle is devastated when her parents decide to relocate to Forida and sell the family horse
farm.  Her horse, Redman is to be sold up north.  Danielle is furious with Alec Ramsy, who is planning to
buy the farm as a winter training facility.  Then the family’s move is delayed, and Alec introduces
Danielle to a black colt.

A Horse Called Raven

Random House, pb, 1998

Danielle is thrilled to be working with Alec.  She is working to earn money to buy back her horse, Redmdan,
and is helping Alec raise a black clot.  A flu virus hits a nearby horse farm, and all the horses have to be moved
and Danielle is jobless.

The Homecoming

Random House, pb, 1999

Danielle is helping Alec take racehorses from New York to Florida.  The visit to New York lets her see
her horse, Redman, and his new owner lets her take him home to Florida as long as he’s returned at the
nd of the winter break.  The trip home, though, is fraught with difficulty.

Wild Spirit
Random House, pb, 1999

Danielle and Redman are now home for the Christmas holidays, but Raven, the colt Danielle has been
working with, doesn’t want to share Danielle, and he and Redman become rivals, which causes Danielle
a lot of pain.  Raven has to learn to share.

The Yearling
Random House, pb, 1999

Danielle has had to return Redman to Mr Steel, and Raven isn’t providing much comfort.

Hard Lessons
Random House, pb, 2000

Raven is going to begin traiiing at South Wind with Alec, where Danielle’s best friend Julie also works.  
Until her grades improve though, there is no chance of Danielle joining them, and then Raven suffers a
mysterious injury.

South Wind Spring

Ramdom House, pb, 2000

Storm

Random House, pb, 2000

The Young Black Stallion Series

The Black Stallion and the Lost City

Random House, hb, 2011, hb
 

Alec Ramsay and the Black are performing in a new movie about Alexander the Great. However, they aren’t always
filming, and in one of the breaks, an albino mare leads Alec and the Black through a waterfall into another world.  It
seems like Utopia, with eternal life, but Alec is not keen on staying there, despite the wishes of the city’s leader. Alec
senses there’s something odd going on: he’s not wrong, as the albino mare is a flesh eater. There. Makes a change
from vampires.