Ah, the riding school. If you weren’t going to achieve the glories of pony-owning, you could still dream of an actual riding lesson. There is a little subset of these stories where the children have to take over the running of the school after disaster overtakes the owner.
Samantha Alexander: Riding School series – series set at the Brook House Riding School
Patricia Baldwin: Ricky at the Riding School – working at a riding school
Gillian Baxter: Bracken Farm series – Bobby and Guy and the Bracken Farm stables
Judith M Berrisford: Ten Ponies and Jackie – Jackie and Babs help teenage Terry with his riding school
Claire Birch: Galloping Detective series – detective series set in a riding school
Joanna Cannan: More Ponies for Jean – Jean grows up and starts a riding school
Primrose Cumming: Silver Eagle Riding School series – the Chantry girls start a riding school
Christine Dickenson: Dark Horse – a riding school set in an urban location
Jean Slaughter Doty: The Crumb, The Monday Horses – American riding school life
Lilias Edwards: A Stable to Let – Cherry learns useful lessons for life at the riding school
Anne Emery: Scarlet Gold – a mother and her daughters set up a riding school to make money
Allison Estes: Short Stirrup Club series – series set at a riding school training children for competition
Jo Furminger: Blackbirds series – a group of children have a club centred around a local riding school
D Glyn Forest: Elmwood Hall – Terence and Bridget put on a circus to raise funds
Patsey Gray: Jumping Jack – children working in riding stables
Catherine Harris: If Wishes Were Ponies – Prue is thrilled when a riding school starts up locally
Veronica Heath: Susan’s Riding School – career novel, in which Susan works in a riding school
Carolyn Henderson: Grey Ghost – Corinne’s riding school is threatened with closure
Joan Houston: Jump Shy and Horse Show Hurdles – two girls’ adventures in a riding school
Selma Hudnut: A Horse of Her Own and Irish Hurdles – children work in riding schools
Dorothy VS Jackson: Bold Venture (aka The Bluebird) – Joanna works at a stables to afford keep for her horse
Patricia Leitch: To Save a Pony – a family move to Scotland and start a riding school
Jill Maughan: Deceivers – a riding school owner who is a tad unhinged
Barbara Morgenroth: Nicki and Wynne – Nicki spends a summer at a riding stable
C Northcote Parkinson: Ponies Plot – a riding school is to close and the ponies plot their future
K M Peyton: Swallow series – a struggling riding school
Katie Price: Perfect Ponies series – girls’ adventures in Vicki’s Riding School
Christine Pullein-Thompson: Riding School series – children’s adventures based around a riding school
Christine Pullein-Thompson: Riders on the March/We Rode to Victory – a riding school based around a comprehensive school
Christine Pullein-Thompson: The Second Mount – David and Pat start a riding school
Janet Randall: Saddles for Breakfast – Robin takes a holiday job at her cousin’s riding academy in California
Alexa Romanes: The Gift Horse – Kelsie trains to be a riding instructor
Sylvia Scott-White: Ten Week Stables, Pony Pageant – two girls start up a stables
Don Stanford: The Horsemasters – a group take the Horsemasters course
Kim Ablon Whitney: The Perfect Distance – daughter of the stable manager struggles
Margaret Stanley Wrench: The Rival Riding Schools – a smart new riding school’s arrival threatens an established stable
Children Running a Riding School
Gillian Baxter: Horses and Heather – the riding school owner has been taken into hospital, so the children step in
Elinore Havers: Dream Pony
Ruby Ferguson: A Stable for Jill – Jill and friends start a riding stable
Ruby Ferguson: Jill Has Two Ponies – Jill and friends run Mrs Darcy’s riding school while she is ill
Justine Furminger: Bobbie Takes the Reins – an aunt is taken into hospital and the children step into the breach
Patricia Leitch: Afraid to Ride – an aunt is taken into hospital, so her nieces and nephews step in
