HELP! Can you please help me remember this childhood pony story!

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Hello!

Another trivial and totally pointless thread started by yours truly, but it is bugging me so much!

I had A LOT of pony stories when I was little, many handed down by my cousins and found in charity shops.

I'm rebuilding my collection after mum donated mine back to the charity shops, for my future kids. They WILL like horses!

This particular story was, I suspect, probably written quite a few decades ago as it was typically quaint and full of dry stone walls, cosy cottages and free ponies!

From what I can remember, two sisters lived/had moved to the country and found a little dappled grey pony living in a field nearby.

They started visiting him a lot and he was always alone and I think it wound up with their dad negotiating with the farmer to take the pony on. Which was awesome.

Then I think later on in the book, they got a second pony which was grey and bigger and the big sister rode it.

I think the cover was a charming painting of the girls with the little dappled pony in fields or something.

I LOVED this book. And I can't remember if what I'm remembering is accurate or not.

If anyone can help, it would be marvellous!

Also, please share what books you loved when you were little. Nostalgia, people!x
 
Okay so pony books are buried in the garage at the moment under all our things after moving at the weekend so I'm afraid I'm no use now, sorry OP.
do try Jane Badger Books, very useful and it will take a bit of hunting through the website but she will have it listed somewhere :)
 
Was it Home farm twins? That was about two twin sisters who move to the country I vaguely remember them finding a pony somewhere and keeping it, then ending up liking it there, the usual
 
It's not The Special Pony by Patricia Leitch is it? It wasn't sisters though... It was a girl and her friend. But it was a grey pony, and they ended up rescuing it from a field with the help of the girl's parents I think?
 
Wahoo, I do like to solve a mystery!

I've kept as many pony books as I could rescue from my mum's house before she threw them out... and I have no intention of having kids haha I just like the nostalgia of reading them every few years :)

That website ponymadbooklovers.co.uk looks like a good'en for tracking down any other authors/books.
 
I wish wish wish I'd kept all my old Pony books, I had the lot, the Pullein-Thompson sisters, everything, then for some stoopid reason (probably coz I needed space) I got rid of the lot. Big mistake. I'd love to sit down with a nice glass of sommat on a wet afternoon and re-visit childhood memories.

I particularly remember a story about a girl who's family went out to America, and she came across this wild Palomino horse; she tamed it, and backed it, and then (if my memory serves me right) they brought it back to England??? I think that's the way the story went anyway.......... oohh I'd love to read that book again!! Loved it.
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
I wish wish wish I'd kept all my old Pony books, I had the lot, the Pullein-Thompson sisters, everything, then for some stoopid reason (probably coz I needed space) I got rid of the lot. Big mistake. I'd love to sit down with a nice glass of sommat on a wet afternoon and re-visit childhood memories.

I particularly remember a story about a girl who's family went out to America, and she came across this wild Palomino horse; she tamed it, and backed it, and then (if my memory serves me right) they brought it back to England??? I think that's the way the story went anyway.......... oohh I'd love to read that book again!! Loved it.
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Phantom Horse??
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
I wish wish wish I'd kept all my old Pony books, I had the lot, the Pullein-Thompson sisters, everything, then for some stoopid reason (probably coz I needed space) I got rid of the lot. Big mistake. I'd love to sit down with a nice glass of sommat on a wet afternoon and re-visit childhood memories.

I particularly remember a story about a girl who's family went out to America, and she came across this wild Palomino horse; she tamed it, and backed it, and then (if my memory serves me right) they brought it back to England??? I think that's the way the story went anyway.......... oohh I'd love to read that book again!! Loved it.
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I think that was the phantom horse x
 
I think I know the one you're on about! I have an excerpt from that book, in a compilation of pony stories. She brings the horse to England, and have a bet with their American friend that she won't get the horse round a showjumping course? And of course, she does, and they can't believe it as the horse was so wild and untameable before. I will look it up tonight as Google isn't playing ball with this one...
 
Yes Phantom hose. My copy - and the whole series - has only just been re-consigned to the attic by my now 17yr old daughter. My copy of pony in the family is there too. We counted over 140 pony books when we stored them. They have a home for life!
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
I wish wish wish I'd kept all my old Pony books, I had the lot, the Pullein-Thompson sisters, everything, then for some stoopid reason (probably coz I needed space) I got rid of the lot. Big mistake. I'd love to sit down with a nice glass of sommat on a wet afternoon and re-visit childhood memories.

I particularly remember a story about a girl who's family went out to America, and she came across this wild Palomino horse; she tamed it, and backed it, and then (if my memory serves me right) they brought it back to England??? I think that's the way the story went anyway.......... oohh I'd love to read that book again!! Loved it.
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Oh me too. I grew up abroad and most of my books were left out there when we came back. And I stupidly allowed my mother to get rid of those I had here when I went away to university.

And I agree with the others - phantom horse is the book about the palomino. It was the first in a series.
 
Both Prince among ponies and I rode a winner are about misunderstood ponies which come good when they meet the right rider-lovely and heartwarming stories.
 
Pony in the Family was part of a set of 3 - Pony in the Family Colt in the Family and Showjumper in the Family.. They were actually written to help people learn to take care of a pony but by writing it into a story so you have a character in the book who is the "expert" imparting their knowledge on others!
 
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