A review by snekmint
Black Gold by Marguerite Henry

2.0

I have to agree with another reviewer here who mentioned that Henry shouldn't have written about Black Gold at all. His life was an extremely short tragedy propelled by greed and mismanagement. His leg snapped at the ankle due to a long-term crack in the hoof his trainer knew about for years but refused to have mended, due to nothing but pride. A useless, selfish old man that Henry paints as lonely and victimized, and she grants him pardon in the end for running a 7 year old horse to death. For some reason she finds him a sympathetic character while the title character is literally sacrificed. Not the best example of a heartwarming tale, but certainly a look into the horrible world of thoroughbred racing.