Figuring out the Saddle Club...(long..but so irresistable!)

[OnyxThePony]

I am an adult someties-addict of The Saddle Club books (books, not the shows), especially everytime we get snowed in afor a week or two (like last week).

This is so far what I have figured out, can anyone tell my why this should make sense, of if they know WHY it makes sense? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif


After reading #51 Horse Trouble (?maybe), Super Edition #? Dream Horse, and most of #86 Secret Horse, where the girls are 'training' Samson, I gathered the following:

Stevie, Lisa and Carole are 12 years old. Carole's mom died when she was 8, after moving to Willow Grove. Carole bought her horse Starlight ..when.. half a year after that-?
But had been riding Cobalt, a fiery TB Showjumper Stallion, before she bought Starlight.
Cobalt was also ridden (or owned?) by snooty Veronica DeAngelo, also aged 8 at the time. Who at some point also owned a 'gorgeous purebred Arabian' (huh? showjumper?) but now owns another fine fine Showjumper, a TB named Danny.

So.. at age 12, these three girls are training one of Pine Hollow's horses to saddle and bridle (failing miserably, but not stopped by the stable owner) and seem mostly responsible for all the tacking, mucking, sweeping, tack care, exercise riding, etc at this barn.
Which is probably the same reason every one of them rides dressed in jeans and cowboy boots and T-shirts.
But doesn't explain why Lisa has her own saddle.

By age 14 (I'm guessing if you can go by the timeline), they are not competing other than the occasional -very local- Pony Club rally, involving their own or possible one other Pony Club. Yet they are also schooling the same Pine Hollow horse over fences (unsupervised, and without the knowledge of the BO and trainer), with one of his first jumps being with novice rider Lisa, well over 4'.

So in book #87 Show Jumper, they head off to the "Macrae", the most prestigious A show this side of America, with novice Lisa in a Red coat and rubber boots riding the rather home schooled Samson (who has after all been working out with the girls for a whole month) and meet no end of snotty mean girls who are all out for blood. And where Lisa admits to regularly jumping ("This High", indicating with her hand how far off the ground).

Ah yes, Max also allows them free rein to ride (unsupervised of course) on of the most dangerous rearing horses he's ever seen, whom Lisa figures her parents want to buy her.. but falls in love with Samson, and no mention of buying him ever turns up.

Hmm.....

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[OnyxThePony]

I am an adult someties-addict of The Saddle Club books (books, not the shows), especially everytime we get snowed in afor a week or two (like last week).

This is so far what I have figured out, can anyone tell my why this should make sense, of if they know WHY it makes sense? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif


After reading #51 Horse Trouble (?maybe), Super Edition #? Dream Horse, and most of #86 Secret Horse, where the girls are 'training' Samson, I gathered the following:

Stevie, Lisa and Carole are 12 years old. Carole's mom died when she was 8, after moving to Willow Grove. Carole bought her horse Starlight ..when.. half a year after that-?
But had been riding Cobalt, a fiery TB Showjumper Stallion, before she bought Starlight.
Cobalt was also ridden (or owned?) by snooty Veronica DeAngelo, also aged 8 at the time. Who at some point also owned a 'gorgeous purebred Arabian' (huh? showjumper?) but now owns another fine fine Showjumper, a TB named Danny.

So.. at age 12, these three girls are training one of Pine Hollow's horses to saddle and bridle (failing miserably, but not stopped by the stable owner) and seem mostly responsible for all the tacking, mucking, sweeping, tack care, exercise riding, etc at this barn.
Which is probably the same reason every one of them rides dressed in jeans and cowboy boots and T-shirts.
But doesn't explain why Lisa has her own saddle.

By age 14 (I'm guessing if you can go by the timeline), they are not competing other than the occasional -very local- Pony Club rally, involving their own or possible one other Pony Club. Yet they are also schooling the same Pine Hollow horse over fences (unsupervised, and without the knowledge of the BO and trainer), with one of his first jumps being with novice rider Lisa, well over 4'.

So in book #87 Show Jumper, they head off to the "Macrae", the most prestigious A show this side of America, with novice Lisa in a Red coat and rubber boots riding the rather home schooled Samson (who has after all been working out with the girls for a whole month) and meet no end of snotty mean girls who are all out for blood. And where Lisa admits to regularly jumping ("This High", indicating with her hand how far off the ground).

Ah yes, Max also allows them free rein to ride (unsupervised of course) on of the most dangerous rearing horses he's ever seen, whom Lisa figures her parents want to buy her.. but falls in love with Samson, and no mention of buying him ever turns up.

Hmm.....

sittin on the dock of the bay...

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[CdnJumper]

Haha! Onyx! I too read the Saddle club as i started it in junior high school and since the series is still going, i still occasionally pick up the next in the series and read on - I however, am way into the 100s of the original saddle club series and also read the spin off book for young adults called Pine Hollow which is when the girls are much older (17ish?). It's funny, because over the years of reading these books occasionally i would say to myself huh? (i do remember Lisa jumping the 4'0" fence on Samson) but i didn't analyze the other bad horsemanship out of it. I do believe you are correct when refering to the ages of these kids and the stuff they are doing but of course the series is read by kids who probably don't pick up on these series of 'accidents waiting to happen' which isn't necessarily a good thing, but it might make a pretty dull read if the girls don't get into some sort of mischief and kids wouldn't be interested if the saddle club wasn't age appropriate. Really, that's my only thought on why the book is presented the way it is (that and i'm pretty sure Bonnie Bryant isn't an advanced horsewoman).

I think that it was much longer than a half a year after her mother died that she received Starlight as a christmas present (and was named after the Starlight ride) - it's been a long time since i read that far back, so correct me if i'm wrong.

Veronica owned Cobalt who yes was a stallion (yes, an 8 year old had a stallion) and Carole used to ride him because Veronica didn't care about him. Cobalt sired Samson and soon after died (i forget how but it had to do with Veronica's neglect). Veronica's next horse was Garnet (?) who was an Arab - not sure about the showjumper part but do know he was expensive. I forget what happened to Garnet but eventually got Danny.

These kids are very involved in everything at the barn (the nice part about being a bike ride away from the barn i guess) - Lisa has her own saddle because her mom is very into the social order of thing and wants to fit in with the DeAngelo's of the world and therefore has nice expensive stuff. And Stevie just prefers to ride in jeans and cowboy boots - but never really takes up hunters or jumpers - she actually ends up being a Dressage queen believe it or not.

They do belong ot Pony club and collaberate with the PC at a town nearby (where Stevie meets her bf Phil). You did however forget to mention that Lisa (the most inexperienced rider of the group - but by this time has been riding probably about 2 years) gets to ride Prancer the OTTB mare (who is right of the track mind you - we even meet her at the track) and teach her pretty much everything - i don't think at like 12 or 14 or whatever, after only riding for two years i would have been able to do the full training on my OTTBs! Including teaching them to jump and everything!

anyway, that's enough of how geeky i am considering i'm 23 years old http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif But thanks for bringing light to the dangerous nature of the saddle club's antics!

[nappingonthejob]

- Carol's mom died when she was pretty young, I think...maybe 6? don't remember

- Cobalt died because Veronica didn't listen to Max and ran him down a hill to a x-c fence and he was going too fast and shattered his cannon bone. but hey, guess what Carol, it's not that bad, because Delilah (her favorite school mount at that point), surprise surprise, is going to have Cobalt's love-child!

Starlight came along in book #13 (or was it 12?)

i rented the movies the other day with a friend who was equally (or so i though) obsessed with the books when we were kids...it was a bit embarrassing when i remembered all the details and she didn't.

i haven't read #87 though...how is it Lisa showed in a red jacket and rubber boots when her mother bought her all that fancy show stuff for her first lesson ever?! maybe i'll just have to read it and find out...

signatures are lame.

[OnyxThePony]

Other observences:

Max "turns on his heel" aLOT.

Samson was "a hand or two" higher at the butt when the girls were training him, when he was sent to another trainer's barn (not Max himself, a noted and respected superhorseman) to finish him professionally. So..Three yrs old and a hand or TWO over..hmm..

I need to have a Saddle Club alter-ego and tell everyone here what I have been up to with my coming four yr old hone bred (by super fiery showjumping stallion Cobalt, out of Delilah, the plodding old pleasure horse).

Also.. I now remember the Saddle Club got to sell Garnet... remember when some seriously overweight beginner rider lady comes out-? So the girls decide this is inappropriate...yada yada...

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[FrittSkritt]

I also remember one of the books talking about the girls performing a multitude of dressage tests at a show, one at each level (i.e., 1st through 4th). Lisa mentions something about Prancer's piaffe not being quite right. Uh huh... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

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[PaintedWhisper]

hahahahahaha. Oh how I miss reading these books, they were the first "real" books I ever read. Funny though, I really thought too much into the things you guys have been talking about. Now that im thinking about it, how hilarious!!

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[Duramax]

I was a diehard fan of the book series when I was growing up... to this day I wonder how many barns beside Pine Hollow have wooden aisles! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

My SO's little sis is 7 and she and I always watch the show together. She is a D-1 in Pony Club, and together, we critique the hell out of the show! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

But geez, when I was little, I would whiz through each book and couldn't wait to get the next- I was oblivious to the inaccuracies!

[Kblue]

Also, I believe in the book Stevie was trying out Belle, she and Phil did a pax-de-deux (I think I just butchered the spelling on that) Involving counter-canter, flying changes, and passage. Hmmmm lol.

When I read those books when I was 11 or so, I didn't pick up on the age. I did however notice one time Lisa mentions Max telling them to hold forearms parallel to the ground. I tried that at my next lesson and my instructor asked me where I'd picked that up! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif (That was a long time ago!)

[2487lyf]

I was also a "diehard" fan of them (i have them all up till when the pine hollow books were made =)). Is there anyone else that thinks that the tv show is terrible compared to the book?! since when did the get accents...? I only watched it once... the one where Garnet is horsenapped... I haven't been able to watch it again since it was just sooo awful!!! I can probablly answer most of your questions if you have more... I've read #1-90 at least 4 times each!!! and some of my favorites 7-8x!! Yeah... slightly obcessive but I couldn't stand waiting for new ones to come out!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[Heinz 57]

I originally started with the Thoroughbred series...

picked up a few saddleclub books, and they seemed kind of strange to me. A few of them were good that I read, but I still liked the Thoroughbred series more, at least when Joanna Campbell was still the author. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif


The one where Ashleigh is 12 or so, and her parents have their own farm(Edgardale?), where all the horses get the flu and her favorite colt dies in her lap...

is one of my favorite books. I stopped reading them though.

The Saddle Club show is INTERESTING. I too wonder about the accents.

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[AJHorsey]

Yeah- I remember saddle club. Still have about 40- 50 books. Lets see what I can remember....

Carol saw Starlight when making rounds with the vet at a racehorse farm, but he wasn't racing- just a horse the owner said he would be selling for pleasure, I think. Carols dad buys Starlight, and Carol finds out after having an emergency ride through the snow back to Pine Hollow. (BK 13)
Carol rode Cobalt for Veronica because V didn't take care of him. He was put down (BK 2) when she galloped him to a downhill fence, and his leg broke on the other side. (That one makes me cry, still! The person gets hurt or killed in fiction, doesn't do much to me, but if it's a horse, I cry.)
Stevie got Belle through from Phil (or his friend?), who got her through a rescue. Later, Belles ownership is challenged by a girl who sees her at a PC rally. Finds out that Belle was stolen from her before Stevie got her. Stevie gets her back, since the girl said that she no longer has a relationship with her, but her new horse.
The one I hate is "Nightmare!" I mean, why would they keep a EIA positive horse (Delilah- Samsons mommy) around? And if Carol had so much sense, then why did she try to ride her- a sick (the mare collaspes on the ride) contagious horse? Never made any sense to me.
Prancer was off the track, but wasn't that due to a cannon bone break? And then they jump her only months after? Umm... don't think so.
OK- this is sad. I think I need to get a life, now....

Thoroughbred was a good series until they made the fights between Ashleigh and Brad a constant, let's see who can beat who, thing. It was OK when they were kids, but as adults? I don't think so.... Good series nontheless. Have up through 30, I think. I also have "The Forgotten Filly", which got me started on Joanne Campbell's writing.

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[CanadianGolden]

Sadly, I remember a lot of this.

Discontinuity: in some books, Starlight is a plain, boring, half TB whose only name is Starlight. Yet when Carole's dad bought him he was a reg. TB from a racehorse breeder and was named Pretty Boy Floyd.

Stevie's parents get her Belle for her birthday and she turns out to be stolen etc.

Cibalt died in the above-mentioned way, then V gets Garnet, later has her sold, and then somehow gets Danny.

Lisa jumped a 4' fence on Pepper, it was *her* first time jumping, it was to escape a bull in a pasture, and Pepper was basically an old semi-ploddy school horse.

Veronica was 12, not 8. Garnet was a mare.

Stevie actually meets Phil at camp and then sees him at rallies because he belongs to another pony club.

They watch Prancer race, she breaks down (fractures her coffin bone) and comes back to Pine Hollow when Max buys her for a broodmare/lesson horse (a 3 year old TB??). Lisa then apparently starts riding her, despite the fact that she is "spirited", 4 years old, and has a messed up leg. I guess she got to jump once it healed--doubt that's too common.

Yeah, I am a geek.

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[PaintedWhisper]

Wasn't Belle's name like Question Mark or something like because of the markings on her face?

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[PaintedWhisper]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PaintedWhisper:
Wasn't Belle's name like Question Mark (with the other girl she was stolen from) or something like because of the markings on her face?

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<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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[OhioColleen]

I've never read the series, I've seen a couple of the shows, found them kinda stupid (but hey, I'm 30-something, so that's okay)

I found all of your synopsis's of the books quite entertaining!!

Has anyone read the series (only 4 or 5 books I think) about a TB filly that a girl rescues, who ends up being the very stolen, highest sold TB ever at the Keeneland sale? I can't remember the name, darnit, but they are SOOO good.

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lol I remember some of this stuff too, I stopped reading the books a couple years ago (I believe it was up to #73). I think that Stevie's horse was originally named Punk (short for Punctuation). She was named that because it looked like she had an upside - down punctuation mark on her head or something.

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[Duramax]

The accents are Australian (maybe New Zealand?) b/c the company that decided to film the tv series is from somewhere along those lines. I think it actually says in the credits before/after the show.

[wonky]

The show was made by an Australian/Canadian film partnership. Seems to be filmed in Aus. - The kids who play Stevie and Carole may be Canadian or American and most of the other actors are Australian. I am an Australian married to a Canadian so I get a kick out of hearing the mix.

[horsegirl33]

oh boy.... Just by reading through all these posts I have now found all my Saddle Club and Thoroughbred books and I think I MIGHT have to start reading them again! I actually just reread the first TB book and realized how much I loved it!! I dont have too many of them though!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

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[fivebyfive]

Belle was originally called "Heinz" because she was a "Heinz 57" horse that Phil's parents/Phil had or were watching or something like that.

When Stevie got her she called her "No Name" for the longest time because she couldn't think of that perfect name for her.

How sad is this...I don't even have any of the books anymore and I STILL remember that...Must start reading more adult fiction http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[TacticalHonor]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Heinz 57:
I originally started with the Thoroughbred series...

picked up a few saddleclub books, and they seemed kind of strange to me. A few of them were good that I read, but I still liked the Thoroughbred series more, at least when Joanna Campbell was still the author. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif


The one where Ashleigh is 12 or so, and her parents have their own farm(Edgardale?), where all the horses get the flu and her favorite colt dies in her lap...

is one of my favorite books. I stopped reading them though.

The Saddle Club show is INTERESTING. I too wonder about the accents.

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OH WOW! I loffed the Thoroughbred series when i was like 10ish. I think I read every book up until when it started becoming all about Christina and Parker being all Eventer-y (Boo that, the series was about racing!!!). Then somehow, overnight, Christina (Ashleigh's daughter for those who don't know the series post-Ashleigh & Brad) becomes this amazingly wonderful jockey, ready to compete in the Triple Crown http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif.

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[daytimedrama]

I to0 was a huge fan I have 1-89 and the Super Editions. I loved them no matter how silly or tisted the plot lines. The show is waaaay too silly for my liking. What happened to Virginia?

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[KrazyTBMare]

Reading the Saddle club and TB books at age 10-11 is what got me into wanting to ride english and jump! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

10 years later and Im still doing it!

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[CanadianGolden]

No no, Belle was called Punk (for Punctuation) by the girl that she was stolen from. Not sure where Heinz came from...I don't remember that being in the book. Maybe it was another horse?

(How sad, we are arguing over the former name of a horse in a children's book series...)

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[Jo]

You guys are cracking me up! I only read a few of the Saddle Club books and the first ones of the Thoroughbred series... but for those of you who read T-Bred have you read "The Evening Star," I think it's called, about the eventing girl who loses her confidence? That and the "Forgotten Filly" are still on my bookshelf at my dad's house. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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[2greys]

The Forgotten Filly... now that was the book! How many of you fantasized about your own grey mare named Dance Away after that? he he.

That led to the Thoroughbred series, which were my favorites, I read them over and over... all I wanted in life was a TB, preferably named Pride!

I liked the Saddle Club too. An important part of my childhood is wrapped up in those books, and in Breyer horses!

Luckily my first instructor was an eventer in CA. At the age of 8 I was on TBs, real "wild" ones of course. I used to pretend I was riding racehorses(they were actually OTTB). When I got older and better at riding, she started putting me on the "real" TB, the ones she actually evented, who liked to gallop, and jump, and yee-haw on cold days or whatever. I wasn't pretending anything about racehorses then! I certainly wasn't pretending to get bucked off of run away with.

To be a kid again.... the sad thing is I'm reminiscing, and I'm only 19!!!!

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[AJHorsey]

Heinz was Belles name when she was with Phil, before Stevie got her.

Same thing about how I got into jumping... I read the books, and wanted ot have that much fun, too!

I understand that the TB series was originally about racing, but what's wrong with eventing? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif Actually, I agree with you about that. It was much better when it was just about racing, then maybe they could have started a new series about the eventing... Oh yeah! That would be nice! I sopped getting them when they started getting into the showring stuff. Loved the racing much more.

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[CanadianGolden]

When did Phil have Belle?? I remember Stevie getting her from her parents who got her from Phil's pony club DC, who bought her from a dealer?

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[HFbellefille]

Despite the fact that Carol, Stevie and Lisa always seemed to lack quite a lot of horse knowledge and common sense, they were ALWAYS running into people who were worse than they were. Remember the girl from France who lied about her pony (something about him throwing up in the past), or the friend Carol goes to visit in Vermont (I think they end up getting lost in the woods), and of course, Veronica.

Did the girls ever get older? I don't think I read past #50 or so, and it seems like they were still 12-13. Or are they like the Simpson kids are perpetually stuck at one age?

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[AJHorsey]

I don't remember who owned Belle when she was at Phil's, but that is where Stevie first meets her... Got to find that book tonight, and will have more detail then... Anyway, it's only in the beginning of the book.

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[BostonBanker]

"Dance Away" from The Forgotten Filly was black, not gray. There was a gray horse in the book, though...the best jumper on the farm, whose name I have forgotten. I wanted him http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Evening Star was my favorite of those books. There was also "The Palomino" "If Wishes Were Horses" and "The Most Beautiful Horse In The World". And, yes, I still pull them out and read them occaisionally.

[PaintedWhisper]

Ok, Phil had Belle before Stevie got her. She was either with Phil's Dad or Trainer or soemthing along those lines. Someone said they got her from a rescue, which i think is right.

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[dior]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by HFbellefille:
Did the girls ever get older? I don't think I read past #50 or so, and it seems like they were still 12-13. Or are they like the Simpson kids are perpetually stuck at one age?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I don't think they ever age. I know Carol had one birthday, and about 3 christmasses, but I think she's still 13. It's been a while since I've read the books. I think they're still around somewhere.

[Backstage]

I too was more a Throughbred kind of kid, and a huge Ashleigh fan...samantha was ok, but by the time they got to christina, i was either too old or it was less interesting.

I've always noticed the inaccuracies in all the horse series', esp. when it came to lineage in the T'bred books, and the lack of logic in the Saddle club stuff.

Does anyone remember a book called The most wonderful horse in the world? Or something along those lines? It was about a girl (Cara?) and the horse she got the ride on when a wealthy girl went away to college. The horse was a palomino named Lucas. I loved that book, it made me cry repeatedly!
Also, there was a series that I ever only read 3 of, because I couldn't find anymore, it was about 4 girls that meet at camp, including one who was recovering from a horse-car collision. anyone remember that one?

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Does anyone remember a book called The most wonderful horse in the world? Or something along those lines? It was about a girl (Cara?) and the horse she got the ride on when a wealthy girl went away to college. The horse was a palomino named Lucas. I loved that book, it made me cry repeatedly!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have that book and have read it a couple of times. I agree, it's a great book and is much better than the usual ones you find out there.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been.

[Zaboobafoo]

Belle-

She is at Phil's barn and has a bad allegry, which Stevie becomes VERY interested in trying to figure out. She does figure it out, and her parent's are so impresed by her research that they buy her the mare.

Starlight-

Lisa's parents want to buy her a horse early in the series. One of the horse she looks at is Starlight(owned by the same guy who owns Prancer, who is then named Pretty Boy Floyd. She sees his talent but knows he is too green for her. She decides she is not ready for a horse of her own at all and makes her parents change their mind. But when Carol's dad decided he wants to buy her a horse and tells Stevie and Lisa about it, Lisa remembers Pretty Boy Floyd and tells Carol's dad.
Carol is working for a vet at the time and ends up at that farm on Christmas Eve. It seems she will miss the Starlight Ride, but then at the last minute must ride over to Pine Hollow to check into a problem with Veroncia's horse(which isn't a problem at all but a prank of Stevie's and Lisa's). She rides over on Pretty Boy Floyd and ends up taking him on the Starlight Ride, and then finds out he is hers. And that is why he is named Starlight, after the Starlight Ride http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

And how is THAT for a memory?? It must be 5 years since I've read those books! LOL

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[EventerAJ]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by OhioColleen:

Has anyone read the series (only 4 or 5 books I think) about a TB filly that a girl rescues, who ends up being the very stolen, highest sold TB ever at the Keeneland sale? I can't remember the name, darnit, but they are SOOO good.

To you, she's a horse. To me, she's a family member who is big, hairy, walks on all fours and is easily startled.
~Colleen<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

YES! I read that series! The first one was called "The Sweet Running Filly." I believe the next one was "A Horse Called Bonnie," then "Sunbonnet, Horse of the Year," then the Haunted Farm? and I think there was one more at least. I loved that series, with the old grooms (Leon, Stash) and such. I thought the mare, Bonnie, having twins then going back to racing was a bit much, but the rest of it was ok.

I read Saddle Club up to about 60, then lost interest. I did note a lot of discrepancies, but they were decent entertainment I suppose.

I loved the Thoroughbred series until Joanna Campbell quit writing them (I believe it was 13?). Then things got all out of whack with that Christina character. No thanks. But the early ones were really good, I thought (at least as a 10-12 year old). Did anyone else read her other book, "Battlecry," that fit in with the whole Fleet Goddess thing? It was pretty good too.

I also read "The Most Beautiful Horse In the World," enjoyed it. Also, "Beauty" by Bill Wallace--the ending of that one made me bawl. I bought it when I was 6 at the school "Book Fair" (b/c it had a horse on the cover!) and I read it so many times the pages were dogeared and the cover fell off. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

Of course I read every Black Stallion book I could find, too. I loved Walter Farley's "Man O'War."

And whose library would be complete without Marguerite Henry? My copy of Misty was also read to death. And I loved the other stories, Born to Trot, Brighty, King of the Wind (LOVED that one!), Misty's Twilight, Justin Morgan, Black Gold.

Wow, I did a lot of reading as a kid!

~AJ~
If you're big-star bound let me warn ya it's a long hard ride.

[equest]

wow. I am 27 and i read those books when i was 12, if I remember correctly.
There are now over 87 books?

Speaking of horse-related novel series for teenage girls, does anyone around my age remember the "Blue Ribbon" series? I read that one after I grew out of the S.C. The six-book (I think?) series revolved around 3 16-year old girls who were novice eventers. I think the horse-related details and plots were far more accurate than the Saddle Club, good stories marred only by a trite romantic subplot. I think they are probably out of print now.

[Zaboobafoo]

Did anyone ever read "Galloping Detective" about a girl who was doing the eq and would solve great mysteries while doing so http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif I LOVED that series,but it didn't last long!

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[OnyxThePony]

Zooboo, I am impressed. I had no idea re: Starlight.

"Nightmare": drattit, I bought that one too on my binge.

So Lisa NEVER gets her own horse? and she's supposed to be Horse-Crazy (one of two requirements of The Saddle Club, a club she, Carole and Stevie formed..as we are always told...blah blah)
WHY doesn't she buy Samson after book #87 Show Jumper? Or Prancer for Pete's sake? (Now, after declining her in the first place).

The worst was the way I heard it all ended, after (well, during) the Pine Hollow series.. something I won't give away.
Sounded like the author got pi#$ed with her publisher and decided to do it all in...
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sittin on the dock of the bay...

[Keltic Kross]

I remember those books, but I was more into the TB books mentioned earlier.

Oh, and whoever asked, the one about Cara and the horse Lucas, that was "The Most Beautiful Horse in the World", love that book (and yes, I do still read it occasionally too!)

My all time favourite is "Star of Shadowbrook Farm" about a girl who gets scared when she falls when jumping a green horse (which her nemisis then jumps around perfectly a week later). She finds Evening Star (who was owned by some witchy lady), and they re-build their trust together. Sounds cheesy, and it certainly is, but a fun read!!

[dior]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by OnyxThePony:
The worst was the way I heard it all ended, after (well, during) the Pine Hollow series.. something I won't give away.
Sounded like the author got pi#$ed with her publisher and decided to do it all in...
http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Didn't like the way it ended either.

Has anyone read The Silver Brumby series by Elyne Mitchell? The ones that I read were really good, but they're hard to find.

[Ben and Me]

Onyx--

Please check out your PTs! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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Disturb the universe?
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[Yay4Crossrails]

Ohhhhhh wow...Something I can definitely relate to!! I have read the TB and SC series since I was in 4th grade!!!! I have every Saddle Club book. It is frightening. I was laughing so hard when I read the analyzations of these books!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif Yay, I'm not the only one who remembers all the gorey details. Secret Horse and Show Jumper never failed to make me wonder...what exactly is Max thinking??? Not only that, but he conisistently puts his entire barn in the hands of 3 12 year olds. Well, Lisa is actually 13, but you know. They never get older. Has anyone actually done the math on how old they should be by now?? hahaha. Wow. But, I was completely obsessed and admit it freely. Oh, and yes...Max does "turn on his heel" a lot.

And yes, I hated the way Pine Hollow ended. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif It was kinda...abrupt. My friend got me the Saddle Club "movie" as a joke, and we laughed ourselves sick. I had never seen the show. Some of them have accents, and some don't??? Oh well...enough ranting for now. This thread cracks me up. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[Lori]

There is a farm in Orange, VA, Amber Hill, I think, that has wooden aisles in their main barn. I could not believe it when I walked in. All that went through my mind was how slippery it must get if there is poop on it or it gets wet. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Lori

I love my fat pony!

[gully's pilot]

As someone who used to --ahem-- write some of the Saddle Club books, I find this thread hilarious. First of all, Bonnie Bryant is a real person, and she wrote the first 30 books single-handedly, and yes, there are some major gaffs such as a 12 year old girl riding a stallion. After that there were several writers, Bonnie still, plus others. I wrote 14 over a 3 year period. It's hard with that many people to not screw up the details sometimes, particularly given that these books were published at the rate of 1 a month. The covers and titles were done well ahead of time, and you had to be sure to write the cover scene into the book.

The kids don't get any older, the same way Nancy Drew doesn't; Bonnie always said that when that started to bother you, it was time for you to stop reading the series. The actors in the television show are Australian; it was filmed there.

There was a younger series, Pony Tails, and an older series, Pine Hollow. I quit reading the books at about the same time I stopped writing them, so didn't quite get to the end of the series. Some of us ghostwriters knew more about horses than others; some of us fought hard to make it realistic, but sometimes that was a pretty tough battle.

The Saddle Club gave me a big step up in writing, and I'll always be grateful for it. But I'm dying to know--what was everyone's favorite book? In a few days, I'll tell you mine.

[Faded Dreams]

I &lt;3 Shadow Horse. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

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[PaintedWhisper]

Someone PT and tell me how Pine Hollow ends! I lost interest and stopped reading it haha.

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[dressager]

Ditto Tiff- I love that book, which is really, really sad.

We've got to know which ones you wrote! I can then go back and re-read (NOT going to my personal library http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif but, uh, the real library... that's right) and ask you lots of weird questions.


(By the way, there are actually over 98 books in the series and Belle was an Arabian/Saddlebred)

Nightmare was great- about EIA. Stupid decision, but a heartbreaker. Dream Horse was good. Sea Horse. Stable Groom. Gold Medal Rider/Horse. Horse Sitters. Western Star. (Let's just say ALL the super editions were good). I think Schooling Horse was really good from a training POV (not that I am taking advice from these books, but the situation in the book was unique)... I also liked Before They Rode Horses. Yankee Swap. Also liked Wagon Trail and Quarter Horse... Horse Feathers was good too. Haven't seen any published after than though.

I HATED Pine Hollow- read a few of them and really didn't like where that was going.

Now, just so you don't think I have read these recently, I went through Amazon's list and read the notes on them to see what my favorites were (do you honestly think I remember the names of these books). It's brought back some old memories... think I may have to pull out that CC and catch up!

Did they stop after Book 99, Trail Ride (did an amazon search- nothing after that!)?

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[Jo]

Keltic, that is the book I was talking about on pg. 2. I couldn't remember the name of it. Doh!

Can someone give us a spoiler of how the series ended? Please?

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[*Next*Star*To*Shine*]

I would like to know how the Saddle Club series ends too!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Please tell (or at least give a hint).

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been.

[Jewels]

Oh man! I still read my TB books and The Black Stallion series. I loved Man O' War, when Danny got to ride him I was so so jealous I nearly cried....okay, I did cry http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

I read only about 4 or 5 books from the Pine Hollow series. They never had them at my school library, and I never had money to buy them. I started watching the show, till they switched the times and now I can't figure out when its on http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif The accent thing definitly had me confused!

I read Blue Robbin series too. There was another racing series I read. And for the life of me I can't think of the name. It was about a girl, 16-17 I beleive. I want to say her name is Tara!? It was about her becoming an apprentice jockey. Her dad dies in the series, and thats all I remember. Any idea's on what the series was called?!

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[Duramax]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by OnyxThePony:
The worst was the way I heard it all ended, after (well, during) the Pine Hollow series.. something I won't give away.
Sounded like the author got pi#$ed with her publisher and decided to do it all in...
http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh no you don't Onyx!! You can't tease us like that and then not tell us how it ends! We demand to know!! Do tell!! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

[Duramax]

gully's pilot- I don't remember the name of my favorite SC book, but it was the one where the girls go to Madison Sq. Garden to watch some horse perform (SoHo was his name maybe??), and he is in the middle of his show jumping round when some chick in a bright red dress that is sitting in a seat right near the ring stands up and something catastrophic follows. I think eventually that horse comes to Pine Hollow?? That was my favorite one! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif

[Oxerbound]

::bounces around:: I know how it ends!!

Wait, I shouldn't be proud of that, should I?

Eeesh....

I loved the TB books a whole whole bunch, again until Christina entered the picture. One thing that bothered me was this:

Although like 30 years pass in the books, there's no sense of time/being dated. Ashleigh is like a teen when it starts, and then ends up having a teenage daughter in the later books, but it sure doesn't seem like the 70's in the first books. :: ponders this::

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[ShaeLeiLady]

Oh i loved TSC books, i still have them all and read them when im bored!
My fave ones are Hobby Horse and Stable Witch!

Anyone ever read the series 'Horse Crazy' about a girl that went off to horse camp without her best friend Judy, because she broke her leg trying yo get her kitten out of the tree? I only have three of them and i would love to know how it turns out!

[DoubleTwistedWire]

Duramax, I can't remember the title, but I loved that one, too! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/yes.gif I also loved Starlight Ride. I still have the first dozen or so books around somewhere. This is making me want to read them again.

I had "aged out" http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif by the time the Pine Hollow series came around. Someone do share how it ended!

[Pirateer]

Someone PLEASE PT me and tell me how Pine Hollow ended...I read the first 6 and wasn't impressed...I have to know!

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[cllane1]

My favorite SC book was the one (can't remember the name) when Stevie's brother got meningitis. She got all mad at him for wanting to eat her chocolate horse, which he wanted b/c his throat was sore, then he got sick and she felt so bad about being mad at him. The when he got well, they ate the chocolate horse together!

Also, anyone remember the one where Stevie's brother wanted to date Lisa? And when Phil invites Stevie to a holiday dance and she runs around looking for dresses and it turns out that it's casual?

Also, talking about Veronica: remember in the second book, after Cobalt dies, she shows a spark of humanity. Carole finds her in the library, practicing her jumping position. Plus V. tells her dad not to buy Delilah for her, b/c a horse's color doesn't matter, but what's inside. As far as I remember, that's the last time you see any kind of niceness about her.

[fivebyfive]

I would also enjoy knowing how the series ended http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
Please PT me if you know!

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[CanadianGolden]

I read Horse Crazy! I think there were 4 books? Those were fun and reasonably realistic.

PT me how it ends too!

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[SupaGoo]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Zaboobafoo:
Did anyone ever read "Galloping Detective" about a girl who was doing the eq and would solve great mysteries while doing so http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif I LOVED that series,but it didn't last long!
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

haha I read that series! I wished there were more of them!

-Kristen

[Yay4Crossrails]

Duramax...I'm pretty sure that was #8, with Topside. And I think that's the one where they meet Skye the teen movie star and teach him how to ride. It's been awhile since I've re-visited these... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
I have so many favorites, though. I love all the Super Editions as well, like A Summer Without Horses and Dream Horse. I like the one where Stevie got Belle, and realized she was stolen, I think #40. I like the ones where they go to riding camp too (Moose Hill?). I don't know, I can't choose!!! So many fond memories. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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[sprite]

For some reason I never got into the SC or T'bred books- think I was just a little to old. My little sisiter had the Blue Ribbon series though- they are great! I re-read the whole set last time I went down to visit.

And the Bonnie books...LOVED them. The 5th one was called "The Betrayal of Bonnie". I still have 2 or 3 of them in a box somewhere http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[HFbellefille]

Does anyone remember another horse-related children's series about four girls at a boarding school that has a riding program. One of them (Mary Anne, maybe?) was a complete beginner and had to ride a horse named Dangerous, one was a total hunter princess whose horse was lame, and then there were two others? I read them sometime in the early-90s, though I don't know when they came out. (Please, do not refer to age in my profile, I know that this makes me 12 or so while reading kids books....there just aren't enough good teen/adult horse novels out there).

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[PaintedWhisper]

HF-
I completely remember reading those books, and really liking them but can not remember what they are called. If I get some time im going to go look for all my old books in my room and see if I can find them.

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[SuperPony]

Sooo...how does the Saddle Club/Pine Hollow end?

I must know!

[gully's pilot]

I remember the boarding school books; I reviewed them for HorsePlay magazine. They were pretty good.

So far the only "favorite" SC book that I wrote were the Gold Medal Horse/Rider ones, and I have to tell you that they are hands down my least favorite. I double-dog-dare you to come up with a decent plot involving the Saddle Club girls AND making the Olympic team. Lord knows I couldn't do it. These were released right before the Atlanta Olympics, and the only cool part about them is, GMH describes the actual Rolex course that was the Olympic selection course--I phone Mike Etherington-Smith several months beforehand (yes! I really did!) and he faxed all his course notes and descriptions. Not that anyone who read the books appreciated the artistry....

My favorite? Riding Class.

[ponies123]

Alright, I'm going to spoil it .. so be forwarned, this is a spoiler post and if you don 't want to know how Pine Hollow ended .. stop reading....



Alright, anyway in like #17 of the Pine Hollow Series the girls (Stevie, Lisa, Carole, and their friend Callie) and their guy friends (Phil, Scott, and Ben) come home from a night out and they see a ho rse on the side of the road, one of them, I think Stevie, gets out and smells smoke when she does. They drive to the barn and it's on fire. Eight or so of the horses died and the barn is completely burned down. The good luck horse shoe is found in only slightly ruined condition, however, =D.

[ponies123]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by OnyxThePony:
So Lisa NEVER gets her own horse? and she's supposed to be Horse-Crazy (one of two requirements of The Saddle Club, a club she, Carole and Stevie formed..as we are always told...blah blah)
WHY doesn't she buy Samson after book #87 Show Jumper? Or Prancer for Pete's sake? (Now, after declining her in the first place).

sittin on the dock of the bay...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Lisa was going to get Prancer as a surprise (that she knew about, lmao) from her dad during xmas or for her birthday, somewhere around there. She had to wait because Prancer was pregnant. They're going off to some party one day and Prancer has a fever, turns out Prancer ends up dieing because she was having twins and something along there, so no, she never does get Prancer or any horse, though she comes close.

[*Next*Star*To*Shine*]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by HFbellefille:
Does anyone remember another horse-related children's series about four girls at a boarding school that has a riding program. One of them (Mary Anne, maybe?) was a complete beginner and had to ride a horse named Dangerous, one was a total hunter princess whose horse was lame, and then there were two others? I read them sometime in the early-90s, though I don't know when they came out. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I used to read those books, they were ok. I'm pretty sure the series was called "Riding Academy".

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[BostonBanker]

The only ones I don't remember are the boarding school ones - and now I want to read them!

The Blue Ribbon books were my favorite, and pretty accurate. I never found two of the http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif but have the rest.

I have all the Galloping Detective books. Again, pretty accurate equitation stuff.

I also remember a teen book that I believe was called "The Thoroughbred" about two girls who go to a horse farm for the summer (the farm, I believe, belonged to one girl's uncle). The other girl gets to ride and show the uncle's special hunter. There is the required love triangle.

My favorite SC book was Autumn Trail. Still makes me teary-eyed.

[CanadianGolden]

I love the Riding Academy books! There was....Andie, and Mary Anne, and Lauren, and another girl...and that horse's name was Dangerous Dan. He reminds me of a horse we have. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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[FrittSkritt]

OK, anyone remember a book called "Summer Pony"? It's really old, but very cute. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif


Wow, now all I want to do during break is go to the library and check out all the Saddle Club books! Although it'll look a little weird if a 20-year-old girl checks out a pile of SC books from the kids' dept... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

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[My Own Barn]

Oh my goodness this post brings back the memories!

I read the SC books - just got them back from my parents' house actually... my littest sister has outgrown them, but at 25 I can't bear to part with them!

I also read the Blue Ribbon books (I had forgotten about those!), the Thoroughbred books (including the one about Evening Star and Battlecry Forever) and the Linda Craig books (she had a palomino named Amber and they solved mysteries).

I also remember reading about some kids on their grandparents' rescue farm with all sorts of animals and the girl rides a horse named Glory.

Oh, and there was a series I really liked about a girl at Up and Down Farm. Anyone remember that?

[Jo]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by FrittSkritt:
OK, anyone remember a book called "Summer Pony"? It's really old, but very cute. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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Yup... Jean Slaughter Doty... companion to "Winter Pony." I love her books.

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[PaintedWhisper]

I remember Summer and Winter Pony as well..

I also remember reading this book about these two sisters (maybe?) Who rode. I think the one ponies name was Peanut.


(This might be the same books..)
There was also one about these girls who rode at what seemed to be a large boarding barn or something. And they had some sort of horse show or horsey games. It might have been at a camp. They had some sort of arts and crafts part of their day. Anyway, there are a few girls and the one gets asked to be on a more advanced team than the other girls and shes worried it will hurt the other girls feelings ect. ect.

Anyone remember what that was? haha

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[PaintedWhisper]

I remember Summer and Winter Pony as well..

I also remember reading this book about these two sisters (maybe?) Who rode. I think the one ponies name was Peanut.


(This might be the same books..)
There was also one about these girls who rode at what seemed to be a large boarding barn or something. And they had some sort of horse show or horsey games. It might have been at a camp. They had some sort of arts and crafts part of their day. Anyway, there are a few girls and the one gets asked to be on a more advanced team than the other girls and shes worried it will hurt the other girls feelings ect. ect.

Anyone remember what that was? haha

-Emily-
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[nappingonthejob]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I also remember reading this book about these two sisters (maybe?) Who rode. I think the one ponies name was Peanut. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

was that by any chance the Ann M. Martin (of the Baby-sitter's Club books) book called "Me and Katie (the Pest)" or something like that? There were two sisters, the older one loved horses, the younger one (Katie) was a copy-cat and had no talent. The older one was writing a really long poem about the adventures of Barbie and Ken w/ her friends and they tried to send it in to the Guinness Book of World Records. Peanut was her favorite school horse and he hurt his leg (forget exactly what it was) and couldn't be ridden anymore. There was a scary school horse that nobody liked called Sky High.

I can't really remember the plot...if there even was one. Probably a sibling rivalry thang.

signatures are lame.

[ErinB]

^^^

I REMEMBER that. I really liked that book. I also remember reading a book called Pretty Lady of Saratoga about a girl who trains a racehorse or something. It was decent... and I loved the Thoroughbred books that were about jumping/eventing/etc. Racing never did much for me. :P

Now I have to check all these books out. Too bad I'm outlawed at my library for being a notorious book-not-turner-backer.

~Erin B #1/sillypiggy.com (http://www.sillypiggy.com)/journal (http://www.livejournal.com/~sillypiggy)
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill

[ErinB]

OH OH, and for fans of the Baby Sitter's Club, I remember that Mallory started taking riding lessons for awhile. There was a cover of her riding a white horse, I think...

~Erin B #1/sillypiggy.com (http://www.sillypiggy.com)/journal (http://www.livejournal.com/~sillypiggy)
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill

[Duramax]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Yay4Crossrails:
Duramax...I'm pretty sure that was #8, with Topside. And I think that's the one where they meet Skye the teen movie star and teach him how to ride. It's been awhile since I've re-visited these... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for clarifying! Where the heck was I getting SoHo from?? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[Yay4Crossrails]

Duramax...The lady who rides Topside is Dorothy DeSoto. You were probably thinking of that name. Yeah I'm a total Saddle Club nerd. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[SCEqQueen]

I LOVED the babysitters club. In fact, I remember that one where Mallory starts taking riding lessons. They had a TV show for it too. I remember watching that episode and it was my favorite because of the horse.

Was anyone a saddle club member? I have my official member card and saddle club necklace and everything. I thought it was pretty cool because I rode in SC and the necklack is a gold horseshoe with SC over it, for saddle club of course.

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~Rigaletto

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[SK]

I was a saddle club member! I think I still have my member card in adrawer somewhere . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[relocatedTXjumpr]

I have so many saddle club books. I have caught the series on T.V. and for the life of me cant quite figure it out!

Did it ever say in the book the were in another country?!?! And how do they jump in those australian saddles??!!!

I love the books...but the series seems to have crushed the visions of Pine Hollow I had in my mind!

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[Yay4Crossrails]

I have the necklace!! (Go me!) I got it with the "Before They Rode Horses" Special Edition.

And I seem to remember watching the Babysitters Club movie a loooong time ago, but I forget if there are any horses in it. I'm sure I would have remembered. I never read the Babysitters Club but for some weird reason I remember the cover with the horse. I think my friend had that book or something.

"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."-Fred Astaire

[Ben and Me]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I love the Riding Academy books! There was....Andie, and Mary Anne, and Lauren, and another girl...and that horse's name was Dangerous Dan. He reminds me of a horse we have. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The school was named Fox Hall--I believe it was loosly based on both Foxcroft and Chatham Hall.

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
-T.S. Eliot

[OnyxThePony]

Ohhhhhh gully!! I had NO idea they were farmed out (is that even remotely a correct term??) I have to honestly state that I couldn't figure out why the technical information did seem to jump. (Is there something with do with the acknowledgement of 'help' in the begining of the books?).
Must bump up..will talk later...

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[Celebrity]

I would like to know what is up with Stevie's ice cream? You know how she puts ALL that stuff on it so no one else will EVER even consider asking for a bite? What is up with that? They all have their own ice cream, and what's the problem if someone wants a bite? That always bugged me... selfish little Stevie!! hahaha.. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

Holsteiner Clique!!
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[gully's pilot]

Onyx--yes, farmed out, and Bonnie Bryant was one of the best authors I know about being straightforward re: hiring ghostwriters. (Ann M. Martin was also good). At my heyday, I could read the first paragraph of a new book and tell which of the then-five authors wrote it. We did have widely varying horse backgrounds.

Stevie's ice cream drove me bats after awhile--there just aren't that many bad ice cream combinations. Traditions die hard, and sometimes you can't kill them at all.

[HorseCrzyMe21]

hay-
i was just wondering if anyone knows how many books are in the saddle club series and in the pine hollow series. i've been a fan since i was young but i've been trying to locate all of the books in the series (lol i guess i need closure and i hate suspense!! i need to know what happens!!!!)

[OnyxThePony]

gully's.. thanks http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
I bet THAT was a hella cool job!!
I liked GMH/GMR. Very horsey. I love (??!!) the ones where horses-horses-horses are the plot and subplot.
I probably had- to date- the most eye-rolling entertainment out of #86/87, Secret Horse and Show Jumper, 10Riding Camp, and many many antics of those crazy girls and the tightship Max who lets them seemingly run wild in his barn... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
Also recall (therefore must have liked) English Horse but didn't read Engligh Rider.
Loved the Stevie:Inside Story.
Just picked up 52Riding Class and 61Broken Horse.
You MUST let us know which ones you authored!!

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[aliali]

I love the Saddle Club books and read them like crazy when I was younger and just a lesson kid dreaming of having my own horse. Now, whenever I'm home on vacations I'll break one out and my Mom will laugh at me for being in college and still reading SC. Oh well!
With regards to the TV series, I didn't like it for awhile, I couldn't get used to the accents and the weird horsemanship skills, but one Sunday they were having a marathon and I got hooked. I think I watched the SC for 8 hours straight! The stories seem to be different than the ones in the series, although some do resemble the books, but has anyone noticed that the TV show involves Veronica DiAngelo a lot more than the books ever did? She's given almost as much importance at Carol, Stevie and Lisa!
But I like the theme songs too, and since when are the SC a singing trio?! I guess they have many talents I never knew of!
And the whole ice cream thing. I thought it was way cool that Stevie always did her own thing. But some of her statements were definitely kit ballsy for the 12-year old (or however old they were supposed to be)girl persona. Anyway, go Stevie! (Plus her name always reminded me of Steve Nicks.

[Dreamsmom]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by HorseCrzyMe21:
hay-
i was just wondering if anyone knows how many books are in the saddle club series and in the pine hollow series. i've been a fan since i was young but i've been trying to locate all of the books in the series (lol i guess i need closure and i hate suspense!! i need to know what happens!!!!)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There are 101 Saddle Club books, and 17 Pine Hollow books.

The last Pine Hollow book leaves a lot of things hanging, that's all I'm going to say, I don't want to ruin it for those who haven't read the series and want to.

[relocatedTXjumpr]

I have through #87 I think...I'll have to dig through the attic. I cant even find them anymore,at the bookstore! I would love to finish the series....12 years later...before I give them all to my niece!

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[PaintedWhisper]

Dreamsmom-I PTed you, i cant stand the suspense any longer!

-Emily-
"Not all who wander are lost"-J.R.R Tolkein
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[CdnRider]

I was a diehard too, up until about book 50 or so.

One of my favorite horse books, although not a series, was A Horse Called Holiday. I've read that book countless times, has anyone else heard of it.

Wasn't there also a series based in England I think where they rescue horses and the characters are young and were at one point homeless too? I can't remember the name of those books.

[Dreamsmom]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PaintedWhisper:
Dreamsmom-I PTed you, i cant stand the suspense any longer!

-Emily-
"Not all who wander are lost"-J.R.R Tolkein
http://community.webshots.com/user/uvgot2whisper
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Check the PT, you have an answer! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[cllane1]

CdnRider:

I remember A Horse Named Holiday! He was deaf, right, and wouldn't take ditches until he and his rider had to save a girl being dragged by her horse while hilltopping at a fox hunt. I was thinking of that book the other day.

I also have read the English series you mention, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.

[EventerAJ]

Did anyone else read "Horsemasters?" It was about a group of students who were undergoing horsemaster certification, the different horses they rode & took care of (Corny P, SandPiper, Blue Trout, Pennant, more), lessons, etc. I loved it and read it so much I nearly memorized it.

~AJ~
If you're big-star bound let me warn ya it's a long hard ride.

[CdnRider]

Yep cllane1, that's the one. It does sound corny with that synopsis though!! Oh well I still liked the book.

[Bells]

Hi EventerAJ - Horsemasters is by Don Sanford and Disney made it into a movie by the same name. You can still find an old copy on ebay every once in awhile.

Rose

[lonewolf]

My favourite Saddle Club book was the one where the girls got to compete at Briarwood. Lisa talks everybody into letter her show Prancer (who was just off the racetrack), only to have it be a disaster.

I liked 'Photo Finish' as well. (The one about racing)
I loved Gold Medal Horse/Rider, but only because I was a little Pony Club kid who dreamed of riding in the Olympics.

Only read the first four 'Thoroughbred' books. To me the series was about Ashleigh and Wonder.

Other favourites of a used-bookstore-frequenting horse crazy kid:
--Pony in the field (girl dreams of getting horse, gets Shetland pony instead)
--Keeping Barney (loved this one; featured girl taking care of stubborn half-Morgan)
--Dancer, by Shelley Peterson
--Galloping Detective, though I only read the one in which the heroine dreams of riding the star horse, and ends up with half-blind reject whom she names Second Chance.

I miss my innocence... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sadsmile.gif

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[HFbellefille]

CdnRider: I love "A Horse Called Holiday" as well. I meant to post about it, but couldn't come up with the title. I still always cry when I read the end of that book.

~*Kate*~
Tufts Equestrian Team "We'll Ride Anything"

[cllane1]

Grrr...this thread inspired me so much that I went to my local library to find some of these classics. Unfortunately I came away empty handed. They need to start a lending library service for horse books. I used to have tons, and got rid of them as I got older, and now I'm dying to read them again!

[OnyxThePony]

Inspired by tales of there being OTHER http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif series than the SC, I took myself to our local used booksstore, and came home with at leat bits of the following series:

Rebel of Dark Creek (quite good! copy is autographed, so hubby is aking me KEEP it http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif ) For anyone who finds it, it is worth it alone for the young girl who moves her new pony to the "Old Lady" stable Riding Academy

And also saw
Silver Stirrups
Short Stirrup Club
Pony Pals
some bizarre British series that may have been the one about how all the riding school horses were rescues
some type of horse detective series (may have been Galloping..whatever)
Black Stallion
Pullein sisters series (there weren't any there when I went, just a collection of stories by one of the sisters)
and at least two other series!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Plus, yes, I had all those corny Scholastic series and singles, Thoroughbred, Bonny, Horse Called Holiday, A Pony of Her Own, Hopscotch, Summer/winter Pony, Wild/WildRose/etc Pony, Afraid to Ride, Charlie, Pony Stories series, Horse Stories series, Kit Hunter series, God only knows how any other kids books went through my hands down to local riding school kids (often also by way of my young adult riders!!)
http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Call us a bookclub of Children's Horse Stories for Adults!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[OnyxThePony]

Rebel of Dark Creek,
by Nikki Tate,

was one I mentioned aboove, which shows humerous insight into childhood by the author, take a look at this, from the book (from the child, thinking of her fellow boarder attending the same little schooling show, an 'old lady' in her 40s who eventually wins the division):

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> She hoped Marjorie wasn't going to have hot flashes or a heart attack or anything with all the excitement of the big horse show.. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That is just too funny. How can you not like a kid's book like that!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[tosca4711]

This isn't about the saddle club, but I remember reading a book called "Pony Jobs for Jill" when I was a kid. It was about a teenager who had finished school (in England) and wanted to work with horses. I think she went through a number of temp jobs before she decided the sensible thing to do was get training for a proper job. She decided to go to secretarial school, much to her mother's relief.

Tosca

[mango1612]

Did anyone else read the books by B. Morgenroth (sp?) they were for an older more horse-knowledgable audience...teenage probably. I have two that I love, "Ride a Proud Horse" and "Last Junior Year" I wanted to read some of the other ones but they're all out of print. The pages on mine are falling out, b/c I got them secondhand, so I have to be careful not to lose a page!

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[stasha]

One thing always annoyed the heck out of me with the SC books--WHY did they have to use the entire first chapter of every book to introduce the characters and settings? It was a series! If you couldn't figure out who, what, and where after book 10...http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif!

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[aliali]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by stasha:
One thing always annoyed the heck out of me with the SC books--WHY did they have to use the entire first chapter of every book to introduce the characters and settings? It was a series! If you couldn't figure out who, what, and where after book 10...http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif!
QUOTE]
This is so true!! After I'd read a couple I could basically recite what the first chapter would say, and the phrases it would use to say it. "There were only two rules to being in the Saddle Club, you had to be able to help out each other at any time....Oh and by the way Carol's Mom died" LOL I guess she did it so you didn't have to start at book 1 if you didn't want to.

[OnyxThePony]

Re: the repitition, I was told it was some type of style the kids related to. Some technique or another.. gully's or another writer could maybe expand on that. I guess that is why they are perpetually 12 (and I revise my earlier amazement at Carole nad Veronica riding the stallion at age 8, since time did not pass, they were obviously the much more mature and responsible age of 12!!!) http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Jill and her series! I forgot those. Jill Has Two Ponies, Jill's Gymkhana etc etc http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[LoriO]

I never liked the Saddle Club books but I loved the Galloping Detective series. I really wish that there had been more of those books.

As for barns with wooden floors, I boarded at one once. It wasn't bad, I loved the sound it made underneath the horses hooves!!!

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[eclipse]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Jill and her series! I forgot those. Jill Has Two Ponies, Jill's Gymkhana etc etc <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh my Onyx: I LOVED these books when I was a kid....and I didn't even ride then!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I stayed up last night after digging out "Jill's Gymkhana" and laughed like an idiot the whole time. Especially, when she is told to "not lift your bum out of the saddle over jumps, as you will just flop on your pony's back when you come down and hurt him".......priceless. Can you imagine what GM would say?? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

"Don't bother me; I'm living happily ever after!"

[Storybook]

Can anyone give me the author of the "Blue Ribbon" series? I had a couple of them but I was never able to get the full series--and now I want to read them again! But I'm having trouble finding them...

A friend and I had a trade agreement--I would buy the SC books & she would buy the Babysitters Club books. I think we kept up to about #15 on the SC books (then she moved away). I read a few more SC books, but then kind of lost interest.

Thanks, Becky

[gully's pilot]

The first chapter had to lay out the basics, every time, so that a kid could start at #97 and know who these characters were. The big problem always comes to a head by chapter 8, chapter 11 is the crisis, 12 the resolution, and 13 a short half-chapter where the 3 girls talk about the lessons they learned.

EXCEPT in my personal favorite, Riding Class, where the last chapter is about something else too.

I'm amazed--gratified, but amazed, astonished, flummoxed--that anybody remembers those Gold Medal books fondly. Good! Glad trees didn't die for no reason.

[Ben and Me]

You wrote the Gold Medal books?

Those were by far the best!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I read them each about 12 times before I went to the Rolex at age 12.

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
-T.S. Eliot

[FrittSkritt]

I also liked the books about Beware the Mare. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

-KC (formerly known as PoloPony257)

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[dressager]

What others did you write? I'm dying to go back-

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[doublete]

Wow... I have up to like 60 I think, and most of the Thoroughbred books.. I think it was 14 or so that the writing went downhill- but Loved the TBred books more than anything! I still pull them out when I need a thoughtless read.

Maybe they're also why I'm in the racing biz now... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

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[MsM]

Okay, for some of you http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif more mature posters:
Does anyone else remember a series called "Timber Trail Riders"? It centered around a riding academy with incredible facilities, yet somehow affordable for "regular" kids. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Each book featured a different kid and story mostly centered on the stable but some about trips they took (like to a hollywood movie with horses!) Characters from other books would often be secondary characters.
How come I didnt know any "regular kids" or riding stables like that? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

[OnyxThePony]

duuuh...ohhhhhh http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif

*Onyx just catching on now** supposed lowered brain function has something to do with spending hours reading kid's series***

So gully's, you must be (your initials must be..) "KBB"... ah now I get it http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I just finished Riding Class. Did that thing with the autistic kid really happen? (asking b/c I did work with autistic kids and we did used to get nice surprise breakthroughs like that)
I actually had one autistic little boy in lessons, who mother (horrid cow) became irate when he started reacting very well to me and the horses and performing at his own age level. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[gully's pilot]

Onyx--yep, I wasn't a personal witness, but a therapeutic riding instructor at a place near where I used to live had an autistic rider who would talk to the horses, though not to people.

And now you know who I really am! I still can't believe those Gold Medal books were anybody's favorites. I wrote 14, probably couldn't come up with all the titles now, but another that I liked was Endurance Ride.

[OnyxThePony]

How neat! The inside scoop on the SC http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

I loved Endurance Ride.

sittin on the dock of the bay...

[tosca4711]

A book that I really loved was "A Horse and his Boy" (Narnia series). The (talking) horse teaches the kid how to ride.

Tosca

[LoriO]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MsM:
Okay, for some of you http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif more mature posters:
Does anyone else remember a series called "Timber Trail Riders"? It centered around a riding academy with incredible facilities, yet somehow affordable for "regular" kids. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Each book featured a different kid and story mostly centered on the stable but some about trips they took (like to a hollywood movie with horses!) Characters from other books would often be secondary characters.
How come I didnt know any "regular kids" or riding stables like that? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/winkgrin.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I remember the Timber Trail Riders! I think I have all the books too! Man, now I'll have to go look and make sure.

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ignorance!" MPD Officer Beck
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**"Member of the Western clique"

[Celebrity]

Well for those of you who have not rented the "saddle clud movie" don't bother! hahaha.. It's just a bunch of episode's put together.. Not worth the $0.99 to rent it! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif And yes.. I am 21 and I just rented it last summer with my best friend (also a horse freak.. of course!)
Although... I am pretty mad that I was unaware of this 8 hour long SC marathon.. I totally would have watched it! Sometimes the show drives me nuts, BUT I still watch it because it's horses.. and there aren't too many shows with horses in the whole thing (more or less..)

Holsteiner Clique!!
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[Dancing Lawn]

I loved "A horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis, as well. I still have my very worn copies of the whole Narnia series. That's how I came up with my farm name, when I was around 8!
You know its been a long cold winter, when all the adults are re-reading all of their childhood favorites. What fun! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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[HorseCrzyMe21]

hay-
thanx dreamsmom; it's good info to know. however, does anyone know if there will be any more books in the series??? or does it stop there?

[HorseCrzyMe21]

hay it's me again.....does anyone know where i can get the movies to buy or if the series is available on video/dvd? if not, would it ever be?