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is a nice lively tale of taking on a green promising pony, Flicka, and competing,
A few issues with this book stop me from giving higher marks,
A girl, Jacky, works hard outside school to earn money towards a pony, then as she hasn't enough, gives away the money to a busker whom we never even see.
Either she would keep it towards the day when she had enough for a pony, or she would give it to a horse charity.
Or she could give it to her mother to buy something for the family,

Pony acquired, the issue of stabling arises and the girl happens to fall in with some better off young people who invite her to keep her pony with theirs, for years apparently, eating their feed and fodder, using their field and stable and jumps, using their tack and brushes, we hear no word of who pays the farrier.
Without any cost to our heroine's family, Not that we are told of anyway, The cost of land or livery is the biggest cost involved in keeping a pony or horse, If she is indeed paying we should be told,

Our heroine does some stupid, stupid things on a five year old green pony, Like hacking along the lanes with no tack nor hard hat, I'm glad we are shown this does not go well, A responsible mother sees a young girl bleeding from the forehead after a fall and just gives her fizzy drink and snack, without insisting on washing the cut and ringing the girl's mother.


Nobody even suggests putting a pelham bit on a pony that pulls so much it runs away constantly and dangerously, The good solution of lighter hands so the pony has nothing to pull against, won't stop the pony running away across country, You can use a curb bit well with extremely light hands,
Our heroine decides not to be in the Pony Club any more when she really could have benefited from instruction and discipline.
And friends.

The cover shows a pony in a running martingale saddle check, not mentioned in the book in which martingales are derided but would have been helpful while we see the ends of straps like noseband or bridle cheek pieces on either side of the pony's head are flapping out wildly as it jumps.
Those should be tucked into keepers so they do not flap,

The original title is 'Jacky Jumps To The Top' from, We get a mention of how land is being built upon which once held horse shows or stabling, All too common from that era onward, I'm afraid, This is a fun read, but don't do all that Jacky does,
This is an unbiased review, This pony is different. But she's going to be sold,

Jacky knows that the ponies at Miss Henderson's riding school aren't much good, They're old, and they're underfed, but one is different, Flicka is ready to take on the world, and Jacky's dearest dream is to do it with her, But the riding school is being sold, and all the ponies are going,

Jacky wants Flicka more than she's ever wanted anything, but she has no money, Even if a miracle happens and she does buy Flicka, there is no one to help her, But sometimes when things seem darkest a miracle happens, Well, this was your usual horse book! I enjoyed learning more things about horse showing, and reading about things I already knew! Since I work with horses myself, I'm familiar with lunging and things like that! It was a somewhat enjoyable read, but I'm sure younger readers would it enjoy it more!

Content:
A couple swear words
Jacky the main character didn't seem to be that respectful to her dad, which kind of irritated me.

Jacky also doesn't think school is important, and since she was so focused on her horse, her grades went very low, Patricia Leitch July,July,was a Scottish writer, best known for her series of childrens books about a girl named Jinny Manders and her wild, traumatized Arabian horse Shantih, set in the Scottish Highlands.
Thebooks in the Jinny series were published betweenby Armada, They are currently in reprint by Catnip Publishers, Two of her novels, sitelink Dream of Fair Horsesand sitelink The Horse from Black Lochhave been republished by Jane Badger Books.
Leitch has also written under the pseudonym Jane Eliot, Patricia Leitch July,July,was a Scottish writer, best known for her series of children's books about a girl named Jinny Manders and her wild, traumatized Arabian horse Shantih, set in

the Scottish Highlands.
Thebooks in the Jinny series were published betweenby Armada, They are currently in reprint by Catnip Publishers, Two of her novels, sitelink Dream of Fair Horsesand sitelink The Horse from Black Lochhave been republished by Jane Badger Books.
Leitch has also written under the pseudonym Jane Eliot, sitelink.