Summary

Chapter 15 began with Alec and Henry driving to Belmont and meeting the reporters, Joe Russo and Jim Neville. Jim recognized Henry as the man who rode Chang to victory twenty years earlier and he began to take the possibility that the mystery horse could beat Sun Raider and Cyclone. Alec displayed the Black to Jim. The Black, nervous around all the people, slashed Henry's arm open by kicking it. The Black bolted around the track and Alec desperately held onto the animal's mane. When the Black finally stopped running, Alec would not let go of the mane and Henry had to pry him off the horse. Jim Neville left the track after the exhibition to write his next column which declared that there was a mystery horse that could beat both Cyclone and Sun Raider. The sporting world guffawed at Jim's idea...