Nicky Millard

Nicky Millard is one of those authors who is tantalisingly elusive:  the only fact I have been able to find out about her (or him) is that they are Canadian.

Finding the book:  very easy to find in the USA.  It was not published in the UK.

Sources and links:

Terri A. Wear:  Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibilography, Scarecrow Press, 1987

National Library of Congress

Candian authors

Bibliography - horse books only

Flaming Star

Scholastic Book Services, 1976, illus J Merle Smith

Reprinted 1977 (seen right), 1978

Jago is poor, young and a gipsy.  He feels lucky to have managed to get a job at the Felton Racing Stables, but
when Selina’s orphaned filly Flaming Star is lost after the stables suffer a fire, he fears he will never see her again