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Black Beauty Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for Black Beauty is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Breaking in, as Black Beauty explains, is to train a horse to bear a saddle and rider and respond to the rider’s commands. On top of all that, the horse has to learn how to handle having a cart or carriage trailing behind it, and how to handle all...
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Ginger is fiesty and aggressive. She is not easy going like Black Beauty so she, "has a bad habit of biting and snapping."
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From the text, we can infer that Black Beauty and Ginger were thoroughbreds.
Merrylegs was a Welsh pony.
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