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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.

"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." --

Introduces careers associated with harness racing including groom, trainer, driver, and owner.

While spending the summer at her grandmother's horse farm, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth gains a clearer sense of her own individuality as she learns more about her long-dead mother and the reasons for her grandmother's irascible behavior.