A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her famous mother help raise money to repair the storm damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies on Assateague Island.

"Gibson can hear the beat of the horses' hooves against the track. Trotters are the world to him. But all he ever does is practice. He's still too young and inexperienced to drive in a real race. But he knows he's ready for the big leagues, and if people would give him a chance, then they would know it too. Gib's chance comes with a filly named Rosalind. Now he can prove that he's good enough to train a champion. But does he really have what it takes?...

Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Moroccan stable boy who tends him with loyalty and devotion all his life.

The author tells, from the point of view of Annie Johnston, the story of this Nevada woman and her fight to protect the American wild horse, the mustang, from extinction because of professional killers who chased the horses for use in dog food.

It was less than two million years ago, scientists tell us, that Man appeared upon the earth, but the horse was here long, long before that-fifty million years ago!