It is a labor of love to read "Horses Nine" partly because Ford knows so entirely what goes into the making of a proper horse, and a proper man. Though horses of course dominate, the men are very far from being mere incidentals, or even a sort of human background for equine portraits.
SKIPPER - Being the Biography of a Blue-Ribboner
CALICO - Who Travelled with a Round Top
OLD SILVER - A Story of the Gray Horse Truck
BLUE BLAZES - And the Marring of Him
CHIEFTAIN - A Story of the Heavy Draught Service
BARNACLES - Who Mutinied for Good Cause
BLACK EAGLE - Who Once Ruled the Ranges
BONFIRE - Broken for the House of Jerry
PASHA - The Son of Selim