Favourite old pony stories, finding a story & nostalgia :)

[peaceandquiet1]

I rode a winner
Prince among ponies
Both fab books

 

[LadyK]

I always liked the Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West

 

[ChiffChaff]

Sheltie!

Blind Beauty by (i think) K M Peyton

And another series with a dun eventer called Barney in but can't remember what the series was called!

I remember those books! The girl was older I think, maybe 16-17? I read them at around 14 and thought they were so grown up and scandalous because she had a boyfriend 😂

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Darkling by KM Peyton is utterly heartbreaking if u are a teenage girl

 

[dibbin]

I still have all of mine!

I love all of the Pullein-Thompson books - one of my favourite series was the "Black Pony Inn" by Christine Pullein-Thompson, and I loved the Phantom Horse books.

KM Peyton's Blind Beauty is brilliant, so are the Swallow books (there's 3 in the series).

When I was much younger I love Sheltie

I think my favourite series were the Jinny and Shantih ones by Patricia Leitch, I've got the first 5 so may have to go and raid eBay for more!

 

[DW Team]

Oh lovely I liked and still read horse books
Any of the Pullein-Thompson sisters books
Silver Snaffles Primrose Cumming
Set of books Jinny at Finmary Patricia Leitch
The one Dollar Horse Lauren St John (3 I think)
A Horse called Hero Sam Angus
Chosen by a Horse Susan Richards
The Brumby books Elyne Mitchell
Great Australian Horse Stories Anne Crawford
My friend Flika Mary O Hara
National Velvet Enid Bagnold
Follyfoot Monica Dickens
Black Beauty Anna Sewell

Are some of the ones I can see on the bookcase

 

[Sprout]

Another fan of all the Silver Brumby books.

 

[cornbrodolly]

Primrose Cummings
Monica Edwards
Eva Ducat/M M Oliver
Pullein Thompsons
I m slowly collecting them all , so much info about ridingand attutudes from the 1930s onwards

 

[katherinef]

I don't know how I left out the Follyfoot books. I loved them including the prequel "Cobblers Dream."

 

[Penks]

I always liked the Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West

I had totally forgotten about this book! I remember it was really good and very different!

 

[loobylu]

The Eventer's Trilogy by Carolyn Akrill ( ?) and Jinny for me. Found Jill irritating as a character!

 

[LeneHorse]

I loved Fly by Night and the Team by KM Peyton. She had a real insight into teenage hopes and dreams. Would love to get hold of the other books by her mentioned in the above posts.

 

[sarahw123]

I was completely obsessed with the Saddle Club books. Until my daughter discovered the series on horse & country and totally ruined it for me.

Also loved Jinny and Shanti.

 

[HashRouge]

Another big fan of the Jinny books here, along with Fly-by-Night and The Team. My favourite Pullein-Thompson sister was Joesphine, I loved the Pony Club books she wrote in the 1980s.

 

[VikkiL]

The books about the dun pony that did xc were my teenage faves. Can't remember the series name but they were written by an author called Samantha I'm sure?

Also loved the KM Peyton swallow series.

 

[zigzag]

I loved Fly by Night and the Team by KM Peyton. She had a real insight into teenage hopes and dreams. Would love to get hold of the other books by her mentioned in the above posts.

They are on kindle

 

[scardycat]

Deltaflyer, I think the book you`re referring to is Tan and Tarmac by Gillian Baxter, easily available on e-bay.

 

[fathorselover]

Some of my faves were the brumby by I think Mary elwyn patchett, darkling which was by k.m peyton , and one called 'a horse by any other name' by jenny hughes. Also really enjoyed the swallow series also by k.m peyton. Also loved the Flambards series! To be fair I probably read every pony book under the sun but these are the ones I remember most!

 

[millikins]

Another vote for The Brumby and Flambards which I still read about once a year. Also The Wild Heart by Helen Griffiths. And a cowboy book about a wild horse that refused to be broken which eventually dug his way out under the corral fence and drowned in a stream, anyone remember what that one was?

 

[ponyparty]

This thread has brought back many happy childhood memories!
Ones I still have:
The midnight horse by Monica Edwards
Ponies for hire by Margaret MacPherson
They bought her a pony by Joanna Cannon (all 3 in one ancient Collins hardback)
Prince among ponies
Two collections of excerpts of pony stories - one chosen by k.m. Peyton and the other, thundering hooves, chosen by Christine P-T. The exerpt that always stands out to me is Horse of Air by Lucy Rees. I don't think the full works got that great reviews, and I haven't been able to track down a copy yet to find out for myself, but that snippet in Peyton's Horse and Pony Stories captured my imagination forever!
Oh and the silver brumby books- bonus: the film has a young, fresh faced and rather tasty looking Russell Crowe playing the man on the black horse, I suggest you all get your hands on a copy ;-)

 

[suffolkmare]

Black Beauty, Silver Brumby series, Haki the Shetland Pony, and Ponies Plot were my favourites, Ponies plot intertwined the stories of ponies from a closed-down riding school and a pony-mad girl collecting model ponies, it became a bit surreal with a pony in space! Oh and Misty of Chincoteague (?)... happy memories!

 

[mandyroberts]

OMG - i have read all of those! Fly By Night only a couple of years ago. I had forgotten about the Bobby & Shelta stories - I loved them

 

[katherinef]

OMG - i have read all of those! Fly By Night only a couple of years ago. I had forgotten about the Bobby & Shelta stories - I loved them

I really enjoyed the Bobby & Shelta books stil can remember parts of them and not read them for years. I just don't think there's much out there in the way of pony books at the moment that can compare I am so lucky that around the time I was a kid the pony book genre was so strong

 

[DD]

I absolutely love 'Wish for a pony' not sure who it's by, my copy is over 40 years old though! It follows a girl named Tamzin and her friend Rissa, I've read it so many times though I pretty much know the plot off by heart!

Monica Edwards. And there are others about the same characters.

 

[Merrymoles]

Deltaflyer, I think the book you`re referring to is Tan and Tarmac by Gillian Baxter, easily available on e-bay.

I think it is too and am thrilled that someone else remembers it!

I loved Cobbler's Dream, the Flicka books and all Pullein-Thompson, Jill, and Three Jays books as a young 'un.

 

[Deltaflyer]

Deltaflyer, I think the book you`re referring to is Tan and Tarmac by Gillian Baxter, easily available on e-bay.

Thanks, now you've said the title I remember it

Three of the Jill books I ordered arrived today I used to have the whole set but they must have got lost in one of my house moves. Looking forward to reading them again. I must get myself a copy of Tan and Tarmac as I remember particularly liking that one.

I also used to like the ones written by Pat Smythe. I also loved her biographical one and always wanted a horse like Finality

Also. I recall some stories in which one of the ponies was (I think) a Welsh D called Toad (Toadhill Flax).

 

[HashRouge]

Also. I recall some stories in which one of the ponies was (I think) a Welsh D called Toad (Toadhill Flax).

Those are Fly-by-Night and The Team by KM Peyton. They've had a lot of mentions on this thread, it's nice to see that other people like them as much as I do

 

[Deltaflyer]

Those are Fly-by-Night and The Team by KM Peyton. They've had a lot of mentions on this thread, it's nice to see that other people like them as much as I do

Ahh, thanks for that, I knew the name Fly-By-Night seemed to ring a bell

 

[Shady]

got to be the Silver Brumby and the Black Stallion books for me
this thread is making me want to put in a massive order on Ebay!!

 

[LeneHorse]

Does anyone remember the follow -up to the Team where Ruth Hollis is a few years older and falls in love with Pennington (Pennington's 17th Summer) a rough lad, but an extremely talented pianist. Its a great read, though not 'horsey' like the earlier ones (though there is one scene where Ruth sobs into Toad's mane when she has had a tiff with her boyfriend).