Black Beauty is a young black colt and loves roaming Farmer Gray's fields with his mother but as he grows into a handsome stallion, he is trained into the use of a saddle and whip and sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall. Here, he makes many friends including the angry Ginger, the well-meaning Merrylegs and the elderly Sir Oliver, as well as the
nice stablehands James and John. But Black Beauty's life changes for ever when he is sold again and becomes hard and unsettled. Will
Black Beauty ever be able to roam the fields again as he did in his childhood? What has become of his friends Ginger and Merrylegs?
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