Favourite horse book ??

[nikkinoo]

Mine has to be the Jinny and Shanti series by patricia leitch.

 

[Eaglestone]

Black Beauty

 

[Lippyx]

OMG!! I read the post title and the first thing that came into my head was Jinny and Shanti!!

I loved those series and could read them over and over again without getting bored!
Are they still available? I lost mine, and would love to collect some again for bed time reading!

 

[Kate260881]

Jilly Cooper - Riders and Polo - I can't choose one as a favourite. I think I need a new copy of Riders... the last 4 pages had to be celotaped back in!!

 

[dsophiea]

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Mine has to be the Jinny and Shanti series by patricia leitch.


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me too!

 

[StarFell]

I like the Hollywell Stables series and the Jinny and Shantih ones

 

[lhotse]

My favourite horse book has to be Fly by Night.

 

[shoo]

Prince among ponies - J Pullien-Thompson
The perfect horse - Gillian Baxter
and the Black Stallion series.

tbh Jinny always worried me as she's nearly always going to get in to trouble!! But I liked them aswell.

 

[ldlp111]

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Mine has to be the Jinny and Shanti series by patricia leitch.

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yeah i love those books too

 

[Trubie]

Silver snaffles- cant remember who wrote it though

 

[diggerbez]

i loved the saddle club books which were set in america. i had them all, i soooo wanted to be one of the characters!

more recently jilly cooper- riders and rivals. brilliant stuff!

 

[algy666]

My favourite (I think ...) is

Blind Beauty (KM Peyton)

And I also love

Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
Smoky the Cowhorse (Will James)
The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
The Swallow series (KM Peyton)
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
The Jinny and Shantih stories (Patricia Leitch)
The Saddle Club (Bonnie Bryant)

 

[Pixxie]

im with diggerbez on this one

was a saddleclub fanatic, still have them all somewhere

but again now ive grown up (a little bit)

jilly cooper x

 

[tabithakat64]

Polo, closely followed by Riders are my favourite adult horse related books.
I wanted a Pony, the Follyfoot books and the Jill books were and still are my favourite pony stories.

 

[nikkinoo]

Oh yeah Polo and Riders, Fab books.
LippyX you can still get some jinny and shanti on ebay. I managed to find the whole set. Im making my other half read them now at bed time (he is 33 LOL)

Think he would rathe read a jilly cooper though.

 

[Maesfen]

Very old book called Fiander's Horses about a teenager working in different types of yards to save up enough for her own horse. Apart from being a good read it taught me so much about yards I didn't know anything about, racing and studs for two.

Recent ones have to be Jilly Cooper's and anything by KM Peyton or Monica Edwards.

 

[elizabethshaw]

Black Beauty

 

[Aru]

Black beauty the black stallion series,my friend flicka and that series...oh and the silver brumby books!!i loved those and there actually fairly acurate in wild horse behaviour to...

 

[Doris68]

OMG Pat - I have a very dogeared copy of that book and didn't think anyone else would have heard of it!! You must be nearly as old as me.....!

 

[Janah]

Trubie, Primrose Cummings wrote Silver Snaffles, one of my favoutites.

I also love Black Beauty, Polo. all the Jill books, all the Flicka books and the Brumbies.

 

[Trubie]

Thanks whyworry, ill see if i can find a copy!

 

[Spyda]

"Dream of Fair Horses", by Patrica Leitch!

 

[hellybelly6]

Gotta be the Jinny and Shantih books.

 

[Lobelia_Overhill]

The Jill books by Ruby Ferguson

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

MOnica Edwards Punchbowl Farm series, Patricia Leitch wrote a book called (I think) Dream of Fair Horses, about a poor girl who gets the ride on a show pony, liked that one very much. The PUllein-Thompson books, particularly the older ones are fab, especially Six Panies, I had two ponies, and Plenty of Ponies, althought there are too many to list.

I wonder if anyone apart from me read Caroline Silvers book, 'Summer with Tommy'? Non fiction, she bought a small moorland type and gentled, backed, rode away and finally sold him. The book was originally written as a series for a national paper, I've seen it on ebay recently, it's well worth reading (brings a big lump to your throat though).

 

[Spook]

"ILLUSTRATED HORSE BREAKING" by Capt. M H. Hayes almost the bible of horse training/breaking/starting/whatever ...........provided it is interpreted for modern tastes

 

[spotty_pony]

When I was younger, I enjoyed the Saddle Club and Heartland series and also The Midnight Dancer books.

More recently, I love Jilly Cooper - Riders and I'm just about to read the next one in the series!

Also, I love Chosen by a Horse by Susan McBane but it's really sad and made me cry!

 

[Maesfen]

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OMG Pat - I have a very dogeared copy of that book and didn't think anyone else would have heard of it!! You must be nearly as old as me.....!

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So glad to have found someone else who's read it, was beginning to think I had the only copy, lol! I can remember seeing it in a paper/sweet shop I used to go past every day for school; I'd check every time I went past that it was still there because the shop owner didn't think I'd ever save enough money for it - but I did and I won't ever part with it either! I was 9 or 10 then, still at junior school anyway, be about '58 as I left school altogether in '64! So I bet I'm older!

 

[eoe]

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Silver snaffles- cant remember who wrote it though

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Primrose Cunningham

 

[Hippona]

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"Dream of Fair Horses", by Patrica Leitch!

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Yes.....loved this book-I'm welling up already....... if anyone has a copy they dont want I would buy it off them....(pretty pls

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Also the Jinny and Shantih books...I thought they were still in my mums attic, but she says not...Grrrr - bet she's lit a bonfire with them or sumat......