Have you got a pony club manual?

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And if so, how did you acquire it? :)

I was given mine by a family friend, still have it with her autograph all over it! lol It is the 10th edition :)

Has your book got a story? :)
 
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Yup :) Mine was from 'father Christmas' when I was about 8. It is so old it has no photos, only drawings :)

I still go to it sometimes for distances for grids though when I can't remember them!
 
Yes, have 2 - one given by a friend of my mothers when I was about 6, the other given to me as a present when I was 13 (along with Keeping a pony at grass & mounted games). Both rather tatty now :o

Still got my pony club badge! found it a few months ago at the bottom of my jewellery box - alongside my mums one (hers shows the rider with a bowler on! :eek: and has a better pin than my 1970's one)
 
I also have the pony club quiz book. I love it. I used to badger my mother incessantly to ask me questions from it! Even though she could easily have asked me things off the top of her head. Kids eh?!
 
jesstinsel said:
Yup :) Mine was from 'father Christmas' when I was about 8. It is so old it has no photos, only drawings :)

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Blue card cover? Mine is about 40 years old :) It sits next to the little Observers Book of Horses and Ponies (remember that one any of you?)

I do have a newer version too, think that's probably about 15 years old now.
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Blitzenfys said:
jesstinsel said:
Yup :) Mine was from 'father Christmas' when I was about 8. It is so old it has no photos, only drawings :)

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Blue card cover? Mine is about 40 years old :) It sits next to the little Observers Book of Horses and Ponies (remember that one any of you?)

I do have a newer version too, think that's probably about 15 years old now.
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Yep :) That's the beast. And it has a disclaimer saying that the drawings really ought to show hats with harnesses rather than without! And all the ridden diagrams show people in their tweed!

I'm not even that old so I think perhaps I just inherited 'father Christmas's' one! :D
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I've got an old one that was given to me thirty years ago, and had belonged to another girl before that. We bought an up to date one for my stepson when he joined pony club five years ago. Its not that much different and quite old fashioned really.
 
We do, somewhere... No idea where though. Al uses her massive red folder of doom (aka the B test book) now :D We're too young to have proper old school ones though. We do have the PC books about eventing and about SJ though- they have really interesting stuff about fittening and the likes :)
 
I have two my first one I got from a PC ball when I was about 12, I won it at their raffle I was so happy you got to choose what you wanted as I had my eye on it as soon as we got there. I ended up misplacing it and bought myself a replacement several years later, ended up finding my original one.
 
Yep, in paperback, around 15 years old

I also have a complete set of 'Horse Sense' which was a weekly (I think) magazine that you put into binders using some razor sharp metal straps through the staples

And shelves, boxes and bookcases full of other equine related publications...
 
Blitzenfys said:
jesstinsel said:
Yup :) Mine was from 'father Christmas' when I was about 8. It is so old it has no photos, only drawings :)

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Blue card cover? Mine is about 40 years old :) It sits next to the little Observers Book of Horses and Ponies (remember that one any of you?)

I do have a newer version too, think that's probably about 15 years old now.
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Mine is about 50 years old! I not only remember the Observers book but also have Summerhayes Encyclopaedia of Horsemanship!

I also have The Horse Its Treatment in Health and Management dating back to 1920's now that makes for very interesting reading!
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Stacey6897 said:
Yep, in paperback, around 15 years old

I also have a complete set of 'Horse Sense' which was a weekly (I think) magazine that you put into binders using some razor sharp metal straps through the staples

And shelves, boxes and bookcases full of other equine related publications...
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I had this! They were bloody sharp too!
 
I have several :p dated from 1960 (mums) to 2003 (not sure where that one came from!) Can't say a whole lot has changed although the very well read and absorbed one is mine from 1986 - that got me through D-H tests fine and my stage 4 after :)
 
Ohhh, I have all the Horse Sense mags too as well as every H&H from 1986-2007 ;) I am close to chucking them all out though - they all live at my parents and mum keeps asking me if they can go - so far I have negotiated attic space ;) :p
 
LizzieJ said:
Ohhh, I have all the Horse Sense mags too as well as every H&H from 1986-2007 ;) I am close to chucking them all out though - they all live at my parents and mum keeps asking me if they can go - so far I have negotiated attic space ;) :p
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If your mum gets her way you may want to donate them to the BHS Library at stoneleigh, they are missing some copies of H&H to complete there records. (The ones they are missing are within the date ranges you say you have!)
 
Stacey6897 said:
Yep, in paperback, around 15 years old

I also have a complete set of 'Horse Sense' which was a weekly (I think) magazine that you put into binders using some razor sharp metal straps through the staples
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It still really annoys me that I'm missing number 7 of Horse Sense.... Have the other 103 editions though :)

I have the 1989 PC Manual :D

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Ive got one of the newer ones - 12th edition? And I brought from the riding schools tack shop to be able to pass my badges and tests at the time LOL so only going back till 2005ish?
 
Just looked at mine (the newer one of the 2)

It says 6th Edition in it. It also says 'To The Xmas Furry, I wish you a wonderful 11th birthday, February 1973' Keith (aka Keith Luxford)

:o

The older copy has no date inscribed (or publication date), just poorer qual paper & says 3rd edition.
 
Foxhunter49 said:
Blitzenfys said:
Mine is about 50 years old! I not only remember the Observers book but also have Summerhayes Encyclopaedia of Horsemanship!

I also have The Horse Its Treatment in Health and Management dating back to 1920's now that makes for very interesting reading!
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I bought my Manual of Horsemanship in 1968 and I also have RS Summerhayes Encyclopaedia of Horsemanship. Still have PC Quiz Questions and Answers from the same era also. No mention of hi viz, pink powder, pessoas etc. Good old fashioned snaffles, thatching and bran mashes.
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