Stranger to the wild / Charles G.D. Roberts -- Black horses / Luigi Pirandello -- Gymkhana / Enid Bagnold -- Sugar for the horse / H.E. Bates -- Maltese cat / Rudyard Kipping -- My first wild horse / Barbara Woodhouse -- Mr Carteret and his fellow Americans abroad / David Gray -- Expensive operation / James Herriot -- 500 mile race from Deadwood to Omaha / Jack Schaefer -- Horse show / Clare Leighton -- First money / Will James -- Tale of the Gipsy horse / Donn Byrne -- How Mr Pickwick undertook to drive and Mr Winkle to ride / Charles Dickens -- Philippa's fox-hunt / E. Somerville and Martin Ross -- Genuine Mexican plug / Mark Twain -- Lost in the moors / Diana Pullein-Thompson -- Ballinasloe buys and point-to-points / Marjorie Quarton -- Happy ending / Anna Sewell