I am looking for a children’s/YA horse story from the late fifties or early sixties. It features a somewhat broken down horse named Black Baldwin, who was bought/adopted by an eleven year old girl desperate to have a horse. She rehabilitates him and eventually wins second prize in some kind of horse show event. The book had small pen and ink drawings throughout. I don’t remember the book jacket though, I believe it had one.
I searched for a long time thinking the horse’s name was the title of the book. Either it is and every copy is long gone, or there is some other title.
“Last Hurdle” by Frieda Kenyon Brown
Yes! That’s it. Thank Thank you. Now I just have to find it.
Yes that is the book! Thank you so much. Never would have remembered the name or author.