The beat of hooves
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Devin never believed in fate. He was thrown out the moment he hit eighteen years of age and has just about managed a life mostly filled with nights spent on the streets or in the fighting ring. But maybe it was fate after all that such a fine stallion never got sold. Maybe it was fate that made his opponent place down that proof of ownership instead of money and maybe it was fate that a young man from ireland who had hardly ever seen a horse before won that black stallion and changed their lives together.
The story of how young Devin Whelan found his place in the world with the help of the mysterious black stallion he won in a fight.
Follow his trails and errors as he gets his life together
Devin always wanted to find what he was supposed to do in life but having ended up on the wrong track in life he had a hard time to do anything else than fight and go day by day.
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