Finding the book: it’s quite easy to find, but doesn’t turn up often with its dustjacket.
Golden Knight and Other Stories
Country Life, 1937, illus Barbara Turner
Reprinted 1941, 1942
Golden Knight: the story of a horse who grows up to hunt with the Pytchley. He
is sold, trained to race,
enters the Grand National, and does rather well...
Freedom:
an Exmoor/Thoroughbred cross is born on the moor. Mr Mitchell and Barbara manage
to buy
the white colt at the sale. Swift manages to help rescue his mother, and after
Swift is outgrown, Barbara
sets him and his mother free.
The Whitlock Family: The Whitlock family inherit money from a long lost brother.
They buy ponies, and
train them for the Brockenhurst Show. Jack deceives his father
to show him that the horse Traveller’s Joy
was worth the money they paid, but it all
works out well in the end.
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