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Post by ginslinger on Apr 20, 2017 14:34:24 GMT 1
I am trying to branch out from my P_T obsession (ok not entirely - I am contemplating a trip to the British Library to get my mitts on a CP-T short story) but while I have managed to identify some of the other stories I read in my youth I have a couple that I haven't traced. One was about a girl who is IIRC unoriginally orphaned and goes to a boarding school with a cousin but gets involved with a stables and I think becomes a working pupil or something there instead. There is a stallion at the stables called Silver Fountain which I find amusing in recollection. I think they were newish when I was young so it would have been early eighties maybe. The other I think had a male main character and may have rode in a point to point for a neighbour called possibly Guy who drove an old jag and ended up engaged to the main character's sister. It was an older book I think maybe from early sixties or fifties even. I am not hugely confident as I find as I age I muddle things up more (and I wasn't great to start with - I saw the beginning and ends of a wartime double bill when I was about 16 and was very surprised to discover that Brief Encounter didn't end with the little ships sailing to Dunkirk when I eventually saw it all through). So I may just be confused but any help gratefully received.
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Post by garej on May 1, 2017 1:15:42 GMT 1
Could the book with the jag be Three Jays go to town? It's been a while since I read it but I remember there being an incident where one character takes one of the Three Jays off almost causing that particular character to miss the show in a sports car. However the character was called D'Arcy not Guy. It's a older book too.
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Post by ginslinger on May 1, 2017 20:16:53 GMT 1
Thanks for trying but I am certain it wasn't the three jays as I used to own some of them and Pat Smythe's autobiographical books (my aunt's originally - who was that generation) and I remember them more clearly. It definitely wasn't "Das**tall Darcy", Sorry to be negative. This book or book was one I read from the school library so the title and author name didn't imbed in my memory.
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Post by kunuma1 on May 1, 2017 23:03:31 GMT 1
In the Bobby and Shelta series she was in love with and later engaged to her boss who was called Guy and I think had a sports car?
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Post by susanb on May 2, 2017 2:49:04 GMT 1
I don't suppose it could have been one of the Lorna Hill books? Guy was in both the Marjorie and Patience series. He eventually married Jane, from one of the Wells books (there was crossover between the pony and ballet books).
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Post by Claire on May 2, 2017 11:02:46 GMT 1
Both of those ring a bell, but like you Ginslinger, I tend to get in a muddle and have the world's worst memory lol. But I'll have a think and may come up with something.
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Post by ginslinger on May 2, 2017 12:13:48 GMT 1
Hmm the main story was the boy riding the horse. He may have been a farmer's son. The romance I think was a bit off camera unless it was me being dozy because I remember being surprised and I think the sister seemed very young so I think it was an era when girls were expected to marry young and consequently the man would be rather older. I will have a look and see if any of these ring a bell. I used to have a great memory but I wouldn't remember the books I read this year without tracking on Good reads - sigh...
Update.
I think the school and cousin one is almost certainly the Bracken Stables one which just leaves the point to point thing... Guy for the older chap's name may be a red herring - I may have transferred that from the other book :S
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Post by susanb on May 3, 2017 23:34:47 GMT 1
Hmmm....the only other stallion/car combo I can think of is Horses and Heather/Ribbons and Rings by Gillian Baxter. The character Sean O'Rourke is a minor character in H & H, and makes a return in Ribbons and Rings with his stallion Toreador. He gets involved with Pauline and Leslie. I can't remember a make of car, but he has been a racing driver (not part of the books, it's just mentioned)
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Post by ginslinger on May 4, 2017 8:46:00 GMT 1
I will check those out but I think I have confused things by asking about 2 books in one post. The stallion was in the book that seems to have been the first in the Bracken stables series. The possible jaguar is in the other one with the male protagonist... which I am beginning to think I have imagined. :S As I reread I realise how badly I remember even books I know I read (because I recognise the covers).
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Post by susanb on May 5, 2017 17:37:39 GMT 1
LOL....I understand completely. As an adult, I've actually almost made it through books before I realized I read them in childhood! My library had lots of old horse books, but they were frequently library rebinds, so they lacked cover art. Two that really surprised me were The Lord Mayor's Show by Vian Smith and The Grand Rogue by Frances Priddy. I was literally on the last page of Lord Mayor before a particular phrase rang a bell and I realized it was a long lost favorite!
Keep branching out and reading, and you may well fall over those long lost favorites, and maybe discover some new ones along the way!
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Post by Claire on May 5, 2017 21:08:56 GMT 1
It doesn't fit completely but the bit about farmer's son and point to points seem to remind me of a book called Grey Arrow by Catherine Carey. The young bloke had a romance with a girl called Melanie I think. There may have been a Jag involved somewhere but can't recall. However I'm pretty sure he got engaged to the main character not a sister. I can't check the book cos I threw it away in disgust years ago as the bloke in it is a total male chauvinist pig!! If anyone has the book they could check up for the other details.
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Post by ginslinger on May 7, 2017 13:18:10 GMT 1
Oh gosh, the Jane Badger synopsis says that the heroine gets spanked by the "hero"!!!!!!! .... mmm that isn't ringing a bell though I was very innocent as a youngster. I did own "because of a pony" but not certain I would have noticed if it were the same auther. If nothing else this is widening my range.
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