

Tally Ho
Putnam, 1930, illus Lionel Edwards
Tally Ho is an irish hunter, and the story follows him from a colt running wild with
the
herd on the hills, and it ends with the old broken winded hunter returning to
freedom on
the hills after an eventful life of hunting, racing and hacking.
The Midnight Steeplechase
Methuen, 1932, illus Gilbert Holiday
This is about the daily life of a group of children and their ponies living in the
country. They hold a
gymkhana, hunt, and have a gallop across country by moonlight,
which is repeated 10 years later.
Three White Stockings
Putnam, 1933, illus Gilbert Holiday
Three White Stockings was based on a true story, and everything from the time Chum
leaves the remount
depot is true. He was a great jumper, once taking off from the
bed of a stream over a three foot bar with a
strand of barbed wire another foot above
it; and he barely scratched himself. He becomes a point to
pointer, but doesn’t always
win.
Moyra Charlton
The Echoing Horn
Putnam, 1939, illus Lionel Edwards
“The origins of Echoing Horn is
suggested by the verses which are printed at the front of the book. They were
written
immediately after the crisis of September 1938. That crisis passed, as other crises
have passed before,
but in that mood the author wrote the narrative which follows....Each
of its five chapters contains one of those
never-
sporting days
are over....successes and failures in the hunting field, and on turf and moor. In
another sense,
too, this is a book of echoes for, from year to year, conditions are
changing and old sporting traditions can no
longer be carried in from father to son.”
Pendellion
Methuen, 1948, illus Lionel Edwards
Set in Elizabethan London, this isn’t
really a pony story: there is some horse content, and the illustrations
are by Lionel
Edwards -
sent down to Cornwall to spend the summer at Pendellion after their father
is arrested. They ride and hunt,
and see something of the preparations for the Armada,
and form a Fellowship of the Table Round.