![]() ![]() It would not be until the end of the war that Farley could return to his first love, writing about horses and the racing world. He was forced to set his stories about Alec Ramsey and the Black aside and instead worked for the US Army magazine Yank for the next five years. The book was a success and Farley was ready to write sequels, but World War II intervened. As he continued his education at Columbia College, he completed and published The Black Stallion in 1941 when he was still an undergrad at the university. Many of his future novels would be set in this racing complex.įarley was a high school student at Erasmus Hall High in Brooklyn when he began to write the first Black Stallion novel. Walter spent a great deal of time with his uncle at the Belmont Race Track and stables. He taught him about horses and training methods that were used on the world racing tracks. His uncle was a professional horseman and took the young Walter under his wing. Walter Farley was born in 1915 in Syracuse, New York. ![]()
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