Category: Black Stallion

Navajo and Little Black, a Pony

Hi all,
We just returned from our eventful trip to Arizona and New Mexico wqhere we were working on a partnership with the Navajo Department of Education and the Black Stallion Literacy Foundation. The “Little Black, a Pony” Navajo translation book, is going to be distributed all across the Navajo reservation. That might not sound like a BIG deal but it is … it took a few years and lots of help to get the people in place to make it happen … in all four states (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado)!

I want to send a special THANK YOU out to our friends in Window Rock that helped SO much … Irving and all your friends are doing a Great job. Thanks again Louise, and special thank you to Mr. Ayze and all the council members.
I have included the description of the partnership if you are interested in the details … it’s a beautiful world in the southwest … visit soon and often!

A special event is scheduled for Jun 5, 2009 in Window Rock, AZ. Read more

Corky Randall / The Hollywood Reporter

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Thought you all might be interested in this nice piece by Mike Barnes

Hollywood horse trainer Corky Randall dies
‘Indiana Jones,’ ‘How the West Was Won’ among credits
By Mike Barnes

April 27, 2009, 03:02 PM ET
Buford “Corky” Randall, a horse trainer in Hollywood for a half-century, died April 20 in Newhall, Calif., after a prolonged illness with cancer. He was 80.

Randall’s career included feature films “The Alamo” (1960), “The Misfits” (1961), “How the West Was Won” (1962), “Soldier Blue” (1970), “Hot to Trot” (1988), “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989), “Buffalo Girls” (1995) and “The Mask of Zorro” (1998) and the 1950s TV shows “Spin & Marty” and “Zorro.”

However, it was the film adaptation of Walter Farley’s novel “The Black Stallion” that established Randall as a a trainer in his own right. Released in 1979, the Carroll Ballard-directed production (executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola) contained some of the most challenging horse scenes ever filmed. Read more

CORKY RANDALL, trainer, teacher, classic cowboy & HORSEMAN, we will miss you!


Corky Randall, the horse trainer on the Black Stallion films passed away this week. He was a fantastic horseman with generations of knowledge and wonderful stories he had collected in a lifetime of working in the strange and demanding world of horse movies. His credits range from “3 Amigos” to “Zorro”, from “The Cowboy Way” to “Texas”. Read more