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Vivid and highly detailed look at the all-too-brief years of possibly the fastest filly ever to be bred n America. Walter Farley would state that the horse closest to The Black Stallion was Ruffian. She was everything good and everything horrendous about Thoroughbred racing. Some good photos and Daily Racing Form cartoons reproduced here.

I used to have a first edition of this, but I think I sold it before I ran away to the UK for five years. I have replaced a handful of my long-lost horse book collection, but I will not be replacing this one. It's like the Terry Gilliam movie "Brazil" in that seeing it once is enough. Reading this again (especially what Ruffian did as she was being euthanized) would probably kill me through grief.