I think I have read that one, Angela Freda, but I don’t remember any more than you do. 
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I think I have read that one, Angela Freda, but I don’t remember any more than you do. :)[/QUOTE]
Are they given or do they buy or discover the horse… he’s supposed to be old… and they later discover he was a circus horse?
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Had you known that Farley wrote it after his own daughter died in a car accident in Europe?
Mr. Farley and his wife Rosemary, had four children: Pam, Alice, Steve, and Tim, whom they raised on a farm in Pennsylvania and in a beach house in Florida. In addition to human members, the family at various times included Arabian horses, Standardbreds (racing trotters and pacers), a Great Dane, an Australian terrier, and Siamese cats. There was always at least one horse in the backyard. In 1968 Pam Farley was killed in a car crash in Europe at the age of 20. Mr. Farley memorialized her free spirit and love of horses in THE BLACK STALLION® AND THE GIRL.
http://theblackstallion.com/web/author/
Makes the ending even more sad! 
The Black Stallion Legend begins with the fictional Pam’s death.[/QUOTE]
Another reason I love the interwebz!
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Odd coinkydink that Caroline Akrill wrote a book called Riding Lessons and then its sequel, Flying Changes. 20 years later Sara Gruen wrote two books of the same names.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure about the Caroline Akrill? I always thought Flying Changes was a stand alone? If it exists, I need to find Riding Lessons!
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Also, the book that cowgirljenn is looking for is actually titled “Crofton Meadows”. The author is Joan Houston. Thoroughbred1201 was definitely on the right track, though - the horse’s name is Jubilee.
After reading this thread, I dragged out my box of C.W. Anderson books, and have ploughed through High Courage, Bobcat, Afraid to Ride, A Filly for Joan and Salute in the last few days.[/QUOTE]
You are corrrect! It was ‘Crofton Meadows’. As soon as I read that, I remembered. The horse was Jubilee.
And I have exactly the same C.W. Anderson books. I got them from my mother - well loved by 2 generations. But my favorite was ‘Phantom, Son of Gray Ghost’.
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Are you sure about the Caroline Akrill? I always thought Flying Changes was a stand alone? If it exists, I need to find Riding Lessons![/QUOTE]
From the link where this book is listed:
Flying Changes.
By: Akrill, Caroline. .
Publishing Data: London: Arlington, 1985, 1st printing.
The sequel to Riding Lessons, an enjoyable equine read, with some odd details about the horse world but interesting characters. (flying changes as in dressage and, perhaps, emotions).
CONDITION: Fine in Fine jacket; no flaws, unclipped 8.95 pounds. #4025
$24.00
Does anybody else remember the books of Theodore Waldeck? I enjoyed the Golden Stallion (totally different from Rutherford Montgomery’s Golden Stallion) and Jamba the Elephant, but my favorite of his was always the White Panther, about Ku-Ma the panther growing up in the jungle.
Unfortunately, my opinion of the White Panther is shared. It starts at around $100 on book sites. I keep hoping to trip over that someday in a used book sale or shop at a steal, but I haven’t found it yet. Ever wished you had stolen something from the library as a kid and just paid the fine? Not really, but I wish some of the good books I remember weren’t so pricey these days.
Great memories! Thank you!
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From the link where this book is listed:
Flying Changes.
By: Akrill, Caroline. .
Publishing Data: London: Arlington, 1985, 1st printing.
The sequel to Riding Lessons, an enjoyable equine read, with some odd details about the horse world but interesting characters. (flying changes as in dressage and, perhaps, emotions).
CONDITION: Fine in Fine jacket; no flaws, unclipped 8.95 pounds. #4025
$24.00[/QUOTE]
Yes, but the problem I have is that I can’t find any record of “Riding Lessons” anywhere. It’s not listed in the Jane Badger bibliography -http://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/ponybooksfile2/cbib1.html
Or in the British Library which should have a legal deposit copy.
I’m wondering whether it exists, or whether it’s a figment of the blurb writer?
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Yes, but the problem I have is that I can’t find any record of “Riding Lessons” anywhere. It’s not listed in the Jane Badger bibliography -http://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/ponybooksfile2/cbib1.html
Or in the British Library which should have a legal deposit copy.
I’m wondering whether it exists, or whether it’s a figment of the blurb writer?[/QUOTE]
It’s out there, because I know I read it back to back with the other one. Both sound a bit like the more outlandish threads on COTH. :yes:
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It’s out there, because I know I read it back to back with the other one. Both sound a bit like the more outlandish threads on COTH. :yes:[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure that seller made an error in the listing, and the author you are looking for is actually Sara Gruen, not Caroline Akrill. Both wrote books with the title Flying Changes. Caroline Akrill’s Flying Changes is definitely a stand alone title. Sara Gruen’s Flying Changes is the sequel to Riding Lessons. Both are cheap and easy to find second hand. Jane has them listed on her site under the Horse Books For Adults section if you want to have a look.
Always confusing when a book has an identical title. I have two books with the title Afraid to Ride, one by C.W. Anderson, and the other by Patricia Leitch.
http://ponybookchronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/doodlebug-1977.html
Did anyone else have Doodlebug? Just found my copy at my mom’s house. Cute story, but can’t imagine randomly having a stallion as my pony.
Actually this blog has tons of great older horse stories:
I have two copies of “Doodlebug”, one paperback and one hardcover.
Was too old for Doodlebug when it came out, but am well familiar with that blog.
I loved Jean Slaughter Doty. There was a book called Everyday Friends I loved too… and I can’t remember the name, but there was one about a girl named Rhiannon and a white arab…
Ha! I found “Grand Rogue”. It’s not “Highland Rogue”. That’s the name of the horse. It was written by Frances Priddy. Don’t look to buy it, though. The cheapest copy I found is over $500, and the only other one was over $1,000! All is not lost, though, because in my search for “Grand Rogue”, “Lonesome Sorrel”, and the ubiquitous “Frog”, I found places that had digital copies to lend for free in pdf or epub! I’m reading “Frog” right now, as a matter of fact. It is just as delicious as it ever was, too. Go to https://openlibrary.org/ to find many of your old favorites.
It’s been a while but, when a Google search for a barely recalled horse book title brings one back to an old CoTH topic, well… I still am treasuring and re-reading the books from “Famous Horse Stories” and recalling my good fortune to have visited places where Marguerite Henry found the sources for her books. I am still recalling learning about places in the world through horse books set there and loving yet again the interludes of time away from time, especially in this period of extreme cold that keeps so many of us from the barn. I am, once again, purchasing the C. W. Anderson “Billy and Blaze” series from the used book sites for my niece’s (Miss Aimee - you CoTH’ers from years ago and the Frying Pan outings, yes, she grew up and it is awesome that she now lives in Montana and is an advocate on the legal side of wild lands and wildlife protection) step son and soon to be my first Great Grand Niece
We need now to add to the list: so many of you have mentioned treasured titles that have allowed me to locate and add to my treasure trove. THANK YOU! If you recall an author, one book, expand your search because those people didn’t just write one book A special treasure has been the re-finding of “Wild Heart”
Jody Jaffee’s excellent novels, (poke, poke, please write, I know there is a Sloop Woody Wade simmering in your head!) I am seething out of selfishness and after Christmas bank low levels to have just missed out on a collection on Ebay of C. W. Anderson’s thoroughbred books. Had I just upped my bid… Oh, the pain to see that treasure gone for barely over $200!
Having seen so many mention Ms Dillon’s equitation books - she taught here in NoVa and so many fabulous riders were shaped by her, we all need her books on our shelves (and in our hands!) So many of the awesome stories are priced out of my range due to the incredible artists who illustrated them. If you do check out the used book on line sales spots, don’t be dismayed to find a copy of a Dorothy Lyons original that some selfish jerk has ripped the Wesley Dennis illustrations out of. The STORY is still there! These are books that will not be carried as popular on Kindle or Amazon, those of us who are fortunate enough to have read them, please, oh, please search them out and preserve them so that future generations of horse crazy kids can have that moment of precious imagination and dream the impossible yet still probable and savor that little bit of precious excitement.
Happy New Year, everyone. How about we poke CoTH with their awesome Sporting Museum and love of art and books and ask for them to set aside a room for those treasured young riders books, I’d be glad to leave all of mine knowing that they would be preserved and protected for other young minds to reach out, strive and to feel the beat of the hooves, the sound of the wind and the heart of the horse beneath carrying the tale forward. Mine are not in great shape, they’ve been thoroughly loved but I would hate to discover that my own tattered copy of a book I read repeatedly in school happened to be the last copy and no one thought to archive it. Kryswyn, Fred, Inverness, Jody jaffee, Fairweather, Moesha, Larosa90, Trixie, so many of you know how much this means to me.
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Late to the party, but since the thread was bumped.
Could you be thinking of "Heads Up! by Patsy Gray. Girl get involved with a trick riding family with appies, IIRC
I think my local library was sadly “underhorsed” when I was growing up. However, did anyone read “Saddle a Thunderbolt” or “The Sand Dune Pony”? I read some of the Black Stallion books but preferred “The Golden Stallion”. And yes, I grew up dreaming of living in Wyoming and having a horse.
Last Christmas I bought an adult size book on dogs for my 8 year old granddaughter. She spends every day poring over the different dog breeds and deciding which will work in her family. (Her mom is from China and does not quite get this dog obsession.) This year I bought her a set of Marguerite Henry books for Christmas. (I’m wondering when my son will attempt to put the kibosh on my encouraging all of this but his daughter is the child after my own heart.)
Does anyone know the title of this story?
Two teenaged sisters have two horses. One horse is named Charlemagne and is very beautiful, but “his” sister is not really interested in doing the work of training and fitness. The other horse is plain brown and very athletic, and “his” sister is very careful with his training. The two get to a big show, and the less-work sister at the last minute demands to ride the plain horse (Jack? Jim?) because she knows Charlemagne can’t win. The sisters switch horses, the plain brown horse runs away with the less-riderly sister, and the more-riderly sister gives Charlemagne a good ride and he tries very hard. There may be a crashing thunderstorm during the show, too.
There is a line in the book where the riderly sister yells to her less-riderly sister, as Jack/Jim is racing around the course without discipline, “Hold him into the fence, Cynthia!” I used to always yell this, in a fake (quiet) yell, when my horse was approaching obstacles on the trail, just as a joke, as horse was perfectly unfazed about trail obstacles.
