The Black Stallion launched a series of novels featuring Alec Ramsay and his adventures with horses, primarily the Black and his offspring. Alec grows to adulthood in the course of the series and gains in depth as well, according to some critics, as a result of Farley's maturation as a writer.

Notable novels include The Black Stallion Returns (1945) and Son of the Black Stallion (1947). These novels center upon Alec's loss of the Black to the Arab sheikh who owns him. The sheikh provides the Black's first colt as compensation. The Arab's daughter returns the Black to Alec in The Black Stallion and Satan (1949). Alec races the colt in this novel and finds out if the Black can outrun him. Another representative novel is The Black Stallion's Filly (1952), which concerns the efforts of Henry Bailey and Alec to train and race the Black's daughter.

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