Just had to share! Oldies only!

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Anyone younger than about 40 won't understand my glee - but I just got a WONDERFUL ebay bargain.

- Alan Oliver's book of Horsemanship - and it's been SIGNED BY PAT SMYTHE!!

These two were my childhood heroes. I actually had this book when I was a child, and looking through it now, I remember it so well. Lovely item. I love eBay!
 
Pat Smythe..now you have taken me back..good buy
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Jump for Joy is one of my fav books and also her autobiography but sadly I can't bring myself to read them again since she passed away. Daft I know!
Another goody is 3 Days Running by Sheila Wilcox (sp?). The things she got up to would make your hair curl ie jumping a spiked railing out hacking one day and her horse got it's hoof wedged between the spikes on landing..... eek...!
 
I've still got my copy of "Equitation" by Wynmalen

.....oh those baggy jods

but everything was ridden in double bridle and I still use one now if necessary.
 
Oh Lucky you! I am an "oldie" too and I have Pat Smythe's autobiography which I first read as a child and then again a few years ago. It's got some great photos in. In fact, I'm going to go and dig it out of my bookshelves again now.
 
I remember as a child going to watch Pat Smythe and Flanagan jump at a local show - Wootton Bassett, I think. And a few years later going to see David Broome and Harvey Smith in their prime at the Highland Show. Lucky you - a real treasure!
 
You lucky b.................!
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That brings back loads of memories of watching her and the other Greats at White City, Harringey and the like. I loved Tosca, she was such a trier. I'm sure if the Beeb rummaged through their old clips, they would be fascinating to the young ones jumping now and would give us oldies some lovely reminders.
 
Well done, my childhood heroine too. Do you remember her fiction books about the three Jays, I used to love those. And the Jills Gymkhana series by Ruby Ferguson. I still have a load of those and have to admit they seem really naff to read them now!
 
*coughs*....*whispers*....Ive started buying them from Ebay.....


I got rid of all mine as a teen and now feel the need to re aquaint myself with Jill et al.
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. . . . and any thing by Judith M Berrisford - the Jackie series. And all the Pullein Thompson girls' books . . . . .

My daughter's never taken to them though but i 've had a lovely time re-reading them.
 
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