Inspired by the Black Boy thread...

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What were your favourite horsey books as a child? I loved the Jill books, and also the Saddle Club and the Ginny/Jinny(?) books about Shantih the mad Arab...I'd love to read them again but I bet they're out of print now. And Black Beauty and Flicka go without saying

Black Beauty but I cry several times every time I read it. Used to read all the saddle club ones too and one of my favourite books was Prince Among Ponies by Josephine Pullein Thompson I actually got an old copy on ebay so could read it again! I wanted an Adonis of my own so much :)
I remember Follyfoot Farm too they were good.

Jill. End of.

I always wanted to slap Jinny!

I loved the Ginny and Shantih ones. I used to pretend to be her I also liked the Black Stallion ones, I think they were by Walter Farley.

I loved Six Ponies by Josephine Pullein-Thompson as well as the Jill / Jinny books.

Jill, Jinny and Shantih, Saddle Club, Moondancer, I loved them all!!!

Silver Brumby series!

Fly by Night and The Team by KM Peyton. Such inspiring books following the progress of pony-less Ruth, and her unsuitable unbroken purchase, following on with the excellent second book where she achieves her ultimate dream to ride in the pony club Area eventing team. Essential reading!!

I have bought all my old faves (except a few of the Jilly at Finmory ones) on ebay and amazon. Some of them like Six Ponies have been reprinted! I even found Pink Pony by Catherine Casey after a fair bit of detective work. I could'nt remember title or author.

I've still got most of these stashed away. . I love K M Peyton too, I like Fly-by-Night etc but also the Swallow books.
Does anyone remember Mylor, the most powerful horse in the world? I've got a copy upstairs but I've never met anyone else who remembers it. It's about some children who go to stay with a friend in the hols (or maybe a cousin) and the father is a mad prof who has built a robot horse called Mylor. He has a hatch under his belly and two people can get inside and 'drive' him. One of the children had to pretend to ride so he didn't look funny going about on his own I could so do with a horse like that now.The bit I loved was that he had an 'instinct' button hidden under his forelock so that when he was left 'parked' no one would suspect he wasn't a real horse as he would randomly snort and stamp his feet.

I've got Black Beauty but was scarred for life when I read it as a child and have never been able to read it again. However, I can heartily recommend the Spike Milligan version!

After the last thread about this on here I ended up re buying a load of ruby Ferguson and pullein-Thompson books on eBay :o

Pixel - I remember Mylor!
It was Jinny at Finmory all the way for me. I desperately wanted her life, especially her horse. Used to hope that my family would up sticks and move to Scotland too.
Fly-By-Night was another favourite, I think I identified rather strongly with Ruth.
Hated the Jill books - I thought she was a smug little pony club trollop.

Follyfoot Farm
Brat Farrar (cannot remember author)
Fly by night

sorry I read all the Jill books but she made me feel faintly nauseous.

x post with harriet re Jill!!
hooray!

I loved all of those but Jill was my favourite. I've re-bought most of them (my originals went in a yard sale...Thanks, Mom) for me my daughter on e-bay. I also really enjoyed a series called "Blue Ribbon" about eventers and a hardcover, photo-story style book about a young girl called Vivi Malloy who rides and shows her own pony and then outgrows and gets a new one for Christmas. I think it was called "A Very Young Rider"...I remember the pony was called Ready Penny and I was very .

Oh yes Jill and Ginny - loved those anything with pony in the title

I bought a huuuuuge compliation of the Pullien-Thompson short stories to read to DD.

They had updated them (for 21st Century children) and weren't nearly so charming as I remembered .

Guineas and shillings were pounds and pence.
Some of the language had changed.
I'd have to scout through second hand book shops to find the originls (or Ebay)

And one called Kit Hunter Show Jumper (I got as a Sunday School prize) .
She catches a wild black stallion on the moors in Devon , breaks and schools it (as you do) and IIRC enters a show jumping tournament with him.

I loved the Jill books and could recite entire chunks of Jills' Riding Club.

Did anyone else read Wish for a Pony about Rissa and Tamsin? Loved that....

Oh and K M Peytons Flambards series. I even enjoyed the one about planes.

No Ponies for Miss Pobjoy. Can't remember the author but I read it over and over.

Oh Blimey, yes, the Black Stallion ones. Hadn't thought about those for years. Loved them.

I've still got Wish for a Pony!

There are quite a lot of books that I vaguely remember bits of that I must have had from the library. I remember one with an australian girl who had horses and a dog named Ajax, and one about a 'medicine hat stallion', and I can't remember what 'Misty of Chincoteague' was about exactly but I know I blubbed at the end, same with Steinbeck's 'The Red Pony'. I think I must have blotted some things out as too traumatic .

The Jill books are being reprinted. I have bought DD the first two and she loves them.

I also bought her Six Ponies but that has not fired her imagination.

I have asked this before to no avail - does anyone remember a book about a girl called October who kept a horse (a palomino I think) on a house boat?

What were the books about the Jays - a bunch of siblings who dominated Pony Club?

It wasn't Horse in the House was it? I remember watching the tv series and the horse got stolen, the girl found it hidden on a houseboat and had to jump it off onto the riverbank to escape. I think in the original book it was a palomino. Don't remember the girl being called October though. The horse was called Orbit? Do you think that could be what you are thinking of?

I loved Horse in the House!

Has anyone else read 'A Tale of Two Horses' - the true account of Tchiffely's ride but told from the point of view of the horses - Mancha and Gato?