The New Adventures of the Black Stallion (TV Series) The Comeback (1991) User Reviews

Quite a return

[mwer347-1 · 8/10 · 13 April 2007]

This episode follows Kidnapped, and is about how Alec gets the spirit back in his horse after he has been transported in a ship and kept in quarantine by French officials for so long. When Alec first sees him, he says to Henry, "What did they do to him?" because the Black is truly only a shadow of the spirited animal he had been before. Of course Henry says he has seen something like this before, then says that maybe the Black's spirit is broken. Alec refuses to believe this, and takes the Black into the mountains, where his spirit can be restored. He says "it'll be just like it was on the island," where they were together first, and they spend days training, even trying to run up an especially steep path. (Thirty-some years ago, I had a grade horse gelding who used to run up a steep hill like that, too)The first time they try the Black balks and falls, but the second time, he runs up the hill, and Alec knows he is has returned to him competitive form. When they return to the track, the Black beats a famous French racehorse named Eclaire by 3 lengths.