When <strong>Black Beauty</strong> was still a colt her mother called to her and spoke to her.Pay attention mother said to what I tell you The colts who live he... » 

When Black Beauty was still a colt her mother called to her and spoke to her.Pay attention mother said to what I tell you The colts who live here arevery good colts but they are carthorse colts and of course they have notlearned manners. You have been wellbred and wellborn your father has a greatname in these parts and your grandfather won the cup two years at theNewmarket races your grandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse I everknew and I think you have never seen me kick or bite. I hope you will grow upgentle and good and never learn bad ways do your work with a good will liftyour feet up well when you trot and never bite or kick even in play. . . .They were words the horse was never to forget no matter how far from thatmeadow the trail of her life led her and it led her very ver far indeed. «