In a message dated 4/28/2005 4:50:51 PM Pacific Standard Time,
paus@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
My own little connection to something cool.
Along the same line... I had a neighbor who was about 5 yrs. old when
Walter Farley or his publishers had a contest. Name The Black's filly and win an
Arabian horse. My neighbor's sister sent in the winning name, Minx, or something
like that, and they won the yearling Arabian gelding. The family lived in Ohio
and the older sister eventually gave the gelding to my neighbor who grew up with
this horse. When she left home for college in Arizona, the horse went with her.
He eventually died from complications of melanomas but she always remembered him
as her Black Stallion horse.
