Jane Badger Books
Alan Smith
Alan Smith (1933-) was the Equestrian Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He retired in 2009, having covered the Olympic Games from Montreal to Hong Kong, and is President of the British Equestrian Writers’ Association. He has written several non fiction books on show jumping and horses. The one children’s book he has written, as far as I know, is Snowy. This is a very late example of the pony biography, which flowered in the 1920s and 1930s, gradually giving way to the pony book centred on the rider.
Finding the book: Snowy is easy to find, and you should be able to pick up decent copies without spending a fortune.
Sources and Links:
Sports’ Journalists Association news article
Chronicle of the Horse - an article on Alan Smith and his experiencss at the Olympics
One of Alan Smith’s articles
Sources and Links:
Sports’ Journalists Association news article
Chronicle of the Horse -
Snowy
Country Life Books, London, 1980, illus David Barnett, 128 pp.
Snowy is a Welsh Mountain pony, who grew up n the Snowdon Stud. One day she runs
away, and is bought and
sold several times. She receives good, but mostly bad, treatment
at the hands of several owners until one day
she ends up at a riding school, where
she meets Tommy, who understands her. Just when it looks as though
everything will
work out well, disaster strikes.
Bibliography -
Also:
WD & H O Wills Horse and Rider Year Book, 1973
Working with Horses, 1975
Embassy Horse and Rider Year Book, 1977
The Royal Windsor Horse Show 1943-
The SR Direct Mail Book of Eventing, 1984
