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message 1: by Clare (last edited Aug 06, 2023 07:20AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
For autumn - or spring if you are in the Southern Hemisphere - members said they would love to read a book about their favourite colour of horse or pony.

Tell us your books in this thread, and suggest some titles for others.

This is the page with the challenge listed, where you can sign up to read.

https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Sign up to the challenge, which is shown at the top of the discussions on the Group Home Page.
If you don't see the latest active challenge click the link Challenges or use the link above this paragraph.

You will be asked which shelf the books to read are on. If you say horse and you do not have a horse bookshelf, Goodreads will put one in to your personal list of shelves.
When you complete a read you have placed on that shelf, Goodreads sees the progress.

Now the challenge registers that you have read some of the books.
Tell us your titles in this thread.

Authors are allowed to mention their own suitable books, as they could read their own books for this challenge.
Series are allowed too.

Have fun!


message 2: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
My two mares were dark bay so bay is my favourite colour. I have just been reading this fantastic memoir, so I'm putting it towards my challenge.

Chasing Dreams: The True Story of the Youngest Female Tevis Cup Champion
Chasing Dreams The True Story of the Youngest Female Tevis Cup Champion by Sanoma Blakeley


message 3: by Clare (last edited Aug 06, 2023 07:35AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
If your favourite colour is black -

The Black Stallion and Satan (The Black Stallion, #5) by Walter Farley Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Little Black, a Pony (Little Black Pony, #1) by Walter Farley Dark Fury Stallion of lost River Valley by Joseph E. Chipperfield Pagan the Black (Sandy and Mistie Seaton, #1) by Dorothy Potter Benedict Fury, Son of the Wilds by Hazel M. Peel Black Beauty's Clan by Josephine Pullein-Thompson Black Beauty's Family by Josephine Pullein-Thompson Black Beauty Annual 1977 by London Weekend Television Son of Black Beauty by Phyllis Briggs Black Tiger by Thomas C. Hinkle


message 4: by Clare (last edited Aug 06, 2023 07:13AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Palomino -
The Golden Stallion and the Mysterious Feud by Rutherford G. Montgomery Wild Palomino by Stephen Holt Horse in the House by William Corbin Ludo and the Star Horse by Mary Stewart Palomino by Danielle Steel Phantom Horse Goes to Ireland (Phantom Horse, #3) by Christine Pullein-Thompson Quarter Horse Boy by Mary Elwyn Patchett Golden Ghost (Phantom Stallion, #8) by Terri Farley


message 5: by Clare (last edited Aug 06, 2023 07:02AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Pinto -
Pinto's Run by Cherokee Parks PINTO! Based Upon the True Story of the Longest Horseback Ride in History by M.J. Evans Hurricane Pinto the story of an outlaw horse 1935 Hardcover  by Thomas C. Hinkle Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry A Pony in the Luggage by Gunnel Linde Angels on Horseback by Norman Thelwell Ponies Plot by C. Northcote Parkinson


message 6: by Clare (last edited Aug 06, 2023 07:26AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Appaloosa -

Fabulous (Sandy and Mistie Seaton, #2) by Dorothy Potter Benedict Appaloosa Summer (Island Series, #1) by Tudor Robins Wild Blue The Story of a Mustang Appaloosa (The Breyer Horse Collection) by Annie Wedekind Appaloosa "The Leopard of the Americas" Horse Books For Kids by K. Bennett Spotted Pride The Appaloosa Heritage Series by Frank Holmes Appaloosa Sky by K. Blanton Brenner Saturday Appaloosa (Northern Lights Books for Children) by Georgia Graham Galloping to Freedom Saving the Adobe Town Appaloosas by Carol J. Walker The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West (Heavenly Horse, #1) by Mary Stanton


message 7: by Clare (last edited Aug 09, 2023 09:42AM) (new)


message 8: by Clare (last edited Aug 05, 2023 02:39PM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Roan -
Ghost Horse Stallion Of The Oregon Trail by Joseph E. Chipperfield The Phantom Roan by Stephen Holt Silver Blue by Gordon Douglas Griffiths The Roan Colt of Yamboorah by Reginald Ottley


message 9: by Clare (last edited Aug 06, 2023 06:58AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Another bay, historical. And more recent.

Lexington The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse by Kim Wickens Red Rum by Ivor Herbert Born to win The story of Red Rum by Christine Pemberton


message 10: by Clare (last edited Aug 07, 2023 07:13AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Dun or grullo / grulla.

Bandoleer (Sandy and Mistie Seaton, #3) by Dorothy Potter Benedict The Grulla Paint Murders A Sheriff Evan Coleman novel (Evan Coleman, Sheriff of Saguaro County Book 1) by David Huebner La Grulla by John R. Wright Smoky the Cow Horse by Will James The Last Wild Horses (Climate Quartet, #3) by Maja Lunde


message 11: by Claudia (new)

Claudia Hill | 1 comments What about the little white horse?


message 12: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
This one, Claudia, Good tip!
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge


message 13: by Clare (last edited Aug 09, 2023 08:43AM) (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Chestnut / sorrel.

My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara King of the Wind The Story of the Godolphin Arabian by Marguerite Henry The Island Stallion by Walter Farley Jago by Hazel M. Peel The Colt at Taparoo by Elyne Mitchell Desert Dancer (Phantom Stallion, #7) by Terri Farley Fire Maiden (Phantom Stallion Wild Horse Island, #5) by Terri Farley Secretariat's Meadow by Kate Chenery Tweedy Secretariat Reborn (A Christian Roberts Thriller) by Susan Klaus Cracklin' Ginger by Hilary Walker


message 14: by Clare (last edited Aug 09, 2023 08:42AM) (new)


message 15: by Caryn (new)

Caryn (showhorse) | 15 comments Thanks for the Chasing Dreams suggestion, I will have to get a copy.


message 16: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Caryn wrote: "Thanks for the Chasing Dreams suggestion, I will have to get a copy."

Highly recommended!


message 17: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Sarah Hickner kindly recommends to me a fantasy about a black horse.
Sarah Hickner


My Queendom for a Horse by Bridget E. Baker
My Queendom for a Horse (The Russian Witch's Curse #1) by Bridget E. Baker Bridget E. Baker


message 18: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
I have also loved grey horses all my life so I sneaked in a grey horse book.
Grey Motive
Grey Motive by Lissa Oliver


message 19: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
A bay and a chestnut feature in this book for YA readers and interested adult readers.

The Jockey & Her Horse (Once Upon a Horse #2): Inspired by the True Story of the First Black Female Jockey, Cheryl White
The Jockey & Her Horse (Once Upon a Horse #2) Inspired by the True Story of the First Black Female Jockey, Cheryl White by Sarah Maslin Nir


message 20: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Another chestnut, which I think upon reading the book is actually chestnut roan, or strawberry roan as we call it here. The sire started out as chestnut and became progressively greyer, and the two-year-old colt is chestnut with a few white hairs.

Secrets of Emberwild
Secrets of Emberwild by Stephenia H. McGee


message 22: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
Still time to fit in a book for the challenge!


message 23: by Clare (new)

Clare O'Beara | 928 comments Mod
The Challenge has ended and a new Poll has been launched to find the topic for next season.


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