Black Gold Read online

  For their help the author is grateful to

  BEN JONES, Calumet Farm, Lexington, Kentucky

  H. A. (JIMMY) JONES, Calumet Farm, Lexington, Kentucky

  OLIN GENTRY, Darby Dan Farm, Lexington, Kentucky

  HORACE WADE, Director, Gulf Stream Park, Florida

  LEO O’DONNELL, Steward on the Eastern Circuit

  AVERY E. BROWN and J. S. PERLMAN, Triangle Publications, Inc., New York and Chicago

  J. A. ESTES, Editor of The Blood Horse, Lexington, Kentucky

  BLANCHE GARRISON, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, niece of Rosa Hoots

  F. L. DALE, Skiatook, Oklahoma, friend of the Hoots family

  WILLIAM HOGE, Indian historian and columnist for the Tulsa World

  B. YOREL, Indian weaver, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  JAMES E. GOURLEY, Head Librarian, Tulsa Public Library

  FLORENCE L. BRALY, Reference Librarian, Tulsa Public Library

  ALLIE BESS MARTIN, Head of Extension and Children’s Work, Tulsa Public Library

  KIM GEORGE, Consultant in Children’s Reading, Tulsa Public Library

  ROBERTA B. SUTTON, Reference Librarian, Chicago Public Library

  IDA G. WILSON, Head Librarian, Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois

  MILDRED G. LATHROP, Reference Librarian, Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois

  EUGENIA WHELAN, Head Librarian, Hollywood Public Library, Hollywood, Florida

  PEGGY RYDER, Hollywood Public Library, Hollywood, Florida

  and especially to

  the Mooneys—Marjorie, Jaydee and Paul

  The Marguerite Henry Horseshoe Library

  Misty of Chincoteague

  King of the Wind

  Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague

  Born to Trot

  Brighty of the Grand Canyon

  Justin Morgan Had a Horse

  Black Gold

  Stormy, Misty’s Foal

  Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West

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  First Aladdin Paperbacks edition, 1992

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Henry, Marguerite, 1902-

  Black gold / by Marguerite Henry ; illustrated by Wesley Dennis.

  p. cm.—(The Marguerite Henry horseshoe library)

  Summary: A heroic small-boned horse with a will to win is finally ridden to glory by his devoted jockey.

  ISBN 978-0-689-71562-4

  ISBN 978-1-4424-8807-6 (eBook)

  1. Horses—Juvenile fiction. [1. Horses—Fiction. 2. Horse racing—Fiction.] I. Dennis, Wesley, ill. II. Title.

  III. Series: Henry, Marguerite, 1902- Marguerite Henry horseshoe library.

  PZ10.3.H43B1 1992

  [Fic]—dc20

  91-4907