Black Stallion 3
Adventure/Love Story
Film

The year is 1954. ALEC RAMSAY, 16, a famous jockey, dreams of racing his prized stallion, THE BLACK, again. Alec's surrogate father and the The Black's trainer, HENRY DAILEY, wants to retire The Black. One night Black revolts, threatening the other stallons on their ranch, the Hopeful Farm, and almost injuring Henry. Henry now wants Black sent away, but Alec pleads with him to reconsider. Henry decides to send Black to a friend's ranch near the Mojave Desert. Alec accompanies Black on the airplane voyage. While in flight, Black is stricken with a bad case of cramp colic and begins to panic, which causes the place to crash land in the Rockies. Alec opens his eyes in the midst of dark and snowbound forest. He is badly bruised and bloody. Not only that, he has no idea who he is or how he got there. His mind is completely blank, as he searches his clothes for some sort of identification but finds only a wad of bloodstained money. He stumbles to the nearest road and hitches a ride with a traveling salesman, BILL WASHBURN. While driving, they hear a radio news report about a young man wanted for murder and robbery. The description fits Alec. Unsure of his identity, Alec thinks this might be him and, before Bill can turn him in, runs off into the desert. Days later he is discovered, half-conscious, by a Navajo boy, JESSE, who takes him to his reservation home. Meanwhile, The Black is waging his own battle for survival. Having endured the plane crash, he must now fight snowstorms, wolves, and mountain lions.
At the Navajo reservation, Alec is befriended by a local prospector, SLIM, who gives Alec a ride to the nearest town. When Alec saves a colt being dragged behind a truck by a cruel rancher, CRUIKSHANK, the colt's owner, LLOYD ALLEN, offers Alec a job on his ranch. Alec tells Lloyd that his name is 'McGregor,' taken from the label inside his jacket. Lloyd asks Alec to help track a band of escaped mares, apparently lured away by a wild, outlaw stallion out to the plains. During the night, Alec hears a strange yet familiar cry from a wild horse. Unbeknownst to him, it is The Black. Although Alec tries desperately to remember anything of his past, he cannot uncover even the smallest clue. In the morning, Lloyd's pretty teenage daughter, KATIE, shows up to give Alec a hand. Much to Alec's dismay, this headstrong cowgirl refuses to abide by his request to return to the ranch. In a canyon overlooking a meadow the two come upon a bizarre sight: a band of almost forty mares grazes next to a single stallion. It is The Black. His body is scarred from the ordeal of the crash and his thick hair is filled with burrs. Alec approaches the horse over Katie's frantic objections: 'You're gonna get killed!' As if in a trance, Alec slowly moves towards The Black. Suddenly the horse runs to Alec and nuzzles him gently. Confused and upset, Alec confesses his secret to Katie, that he is suffering from amnesia and has lied to them about his identity. HeÕs sure he knows the renegade stallion, but he doesn't know how. He convinces Katie to let him follow The Black in hopes of learning his identity. He mounts up and rides away.
The next day, Lloyd and his men catch up to Alec and surround and trap the herd in the canyon. One of them draws his rifle to shoot The Black, but Alec knocks from his hand. Lloyd agrees to let Alec try to bring the stallion in unharmed and, as they watch stupefied, Alec halters The Black and leads him out of the meadow. When Lloyd sees Alec riding, he is amazed by his expertise and by The Black's speed. He asks Alec to race against a rival rancherÕs thoroughbred, NIGHT WIND. Back in town, Cruikshank reads about the murderer matching AlecÕs description in the local paper and plots his revenge. When the day of the big race arrives, Alec watches Katie win an early race on her own horse. In the meantime, Slim has come across a photo of Alec and The Black in an old magazine. As Slim rushes to town, Cruikshank brings the SHERIFF to arrest Alec. Lloyd entreats the Sheriff to let Alec race first and then arrest him. Over Cruikshank's protests, the Sheriff agrees. Alec starts the race but plans to jump the railing with The Black on the far side of the track and escape. Slim arrives to inform the others of Alec's realy identity. Alec finds a wave of calm riding The Black. The position, the speed, the synchronicity are all familiar to him. He pushes The Black forward, even as he pushes his entire being forward as hard as he can to erase his amnesis. Finally as he slows to escape and The Black resists, there is a powerful rush of recognition through which Alec remembers who he is. He sees flashes of his past and throws his arms in the air as he rides, shouting to the sky, 'Alec Ramsay! I'm Alec Ramsay!' No longer thinking of escape, Alec urges The Black back down the track. The Black responds with an electrifying burst of speed, overtaking Night Wind and winning the race. Unable to exonerate Alec merely on Slim's word, the Sheriff arrests him but soon receives report that the real murderer has been apprehended and drops all charges. After Slim alerts the press, Henry hears that Alec and The Black are alive and arrives to take them back to Hopeful Farm. Parting with Katie, Alec hopes that someday soon she may watch him race The Black again.