The stuff you learn on Facebook.. Today I learned the registered name and strain of the Arabian stallion that stars in the movies “The Black Stallion” and the “The Black Stallions Returns”. He is a Ma’naqi Sbayli tracing to the Blunt’s Ferida in the tail female, and his name is Cass Ole. I can already see an ad for my CSA Baroness Lady, the last living Al Khamsa mare tracing to that strain, with the headline: “From the strain of the Black Stallion”. A related anecdote: A few years ago, while having lunch with a prominent breeder from the Gulf in his stud farm, I asked: “So, where did you get your passion for Arabians? Was your grandfather a Bedouin warrior?”. The answer was not quite what I was expecting: “No, I read Walter Farley’s The Black Stallion”.