When he finds poison in the Black's stable, Alec suspects someone is trying to kill his beloved stallion. But just as he's puzzling over the clues, something even more disturbing happens. An Arab chieftain shows up and reclaims the Black.

A boy is entrusted to attend the birth, train, and drive a blood bay colt that is the great hope of an aging reinsman who refuses to be reconciled to the fact that sulky-racing has moved from the county fair to the big night time, moneymaking raceways.

Henry Dailey buys a spoiled, contrary two-year-old filly, a daughter of the Black, in November, and is determined to have a Kentucky Derby candidate by May.

A racing accident resulting in a frightened horse and an injured driver leads Alec Ramsey and Henry Dailey to try harness racing, working a son of the Black toward the Hambletonian.

In order to raise money to rebuild a one-hundred-thousand-dollar barn, destroyed by fire, Alec returns to racing the Black.

A late-eighteenth-century carriage maker turns professional horse-tamer, and deals with many vicious or badly trained horses, and one unscrupulous showman.

The Black is the fastest horse in America, and Alex Ramsay is preparing him for a big race. Suddenly there comes a new challenger: the island stallion, Flame! An unproven racer, Flame can run like the wind. Black and Flame come face to face on the racetrack.

Alec Ramsay has a hard time persuading his partners to retain the girl he hires as a trainer and an even harder time convincing them to let her race the Black Stallion when Alec is suspended as a jockey.

Traces the early life of the black stallion in the mountains of Arabia before he was captured and brought to the West. A prequel to the first book in the Black Stallion series.