FILM and TV stars are told never to work with children or animals, yet often it is those animals – and especially those horses – that have helped propel those actors and actresses into being well-known stars.
We are talking about those four-legged legends of the screen whom we know and love, even years after their burst of stardom. Remember My Friend Flicka, Black Beauty and Champion the Wonder Horse? Gone but definitely not forgotten…
MY Friend Flicka was an enormous TV success in the 1950s, where it was shown in black and white for the benefit of home television sets at the time, although created in colour. Flicka was a mustang who mostly took a walk on the wild side, but befriended a girl named Kate in the original Mary O'Hara book. For TV, Kate became Ken and later when Disney brought the story back to life, it was with Kate once again as Flicka's best pal.
Of course, the adventures were varied, sometimes fun, sometimes hoof-biting, but they were
