Jill's Gymkhana
Ruby Ferguson
Lonely Jill Crewe makes friends with a neglected pony. She decides to buy Black Boy, but there's only one problem: she can't even unsaddle him, let alone ride him! And girls such as Susan Pyke are very scathing that she doesn't have the right riding clothes. But her friends show her the ropes, and encourage her to ride in the local gymkhana, where she has a few surprises for the unpleasant Susan Pyke...
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A Stable For Jill
Ruby Ferguson
Jill is forced to spend her summer holidays with Aunt Primrose and her drippy cousin Cecilia. Luckily she meets fellow horse lovers, Pat, Mike and Bar Walters who have their own pony. They're miserabe though, because she costs too much to keep. Jill's got the perfect plan: horses for hire! But the Walters' father is away, and when he returns he's not too happy to see the Vicarage land turned into a riding school. Now what will happen to the horses?
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Jill Has Two Ponies
Ruby Ferguson
Jill Crewe thought her dreams had come true when she got Black Boy, her beloved first pony. Then she gets the chance to buy another pony. It seems too good to be true when Jill buys Rapide, a successful show jumper. But has Jill done the right thing? Rapide likes everyone else at the stables, but he's not at all keen on her. Should she sell him? Or keep on trying, hoping she and Rapide will click? Jill can't decide...
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Jill Enjoys Her Ponies
Ruby Ferguson
After a disappointing start, the summer holidays improve for Jill when she is asked to help organise a gymkhana. Life gets better still when Mrs. Darcy suggests Jill ride her beautiful roan hack, Sandy-Two, at the Chatton Show. Jill assists Dinah, a strange girl who will do anything to learn to ride, by giving her old riding clothes and a ride on Black Boy. When Dinah disappears with three horses, Jill wonders exactly what she has let herself in for...
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Jill's Riding Club
Ruby Ferguson
Starting a riding club seemed like a good idea at first. But then the bossy Clarissa Dandleby joins, the Intimidating Major Hooley scares off some of the members and Miss Durdon takes over as President in return for letting the club use her field. Suddenly it all seems a lot less like fun for Jill and her friends. Will champion show-jumper Captain Cholly-Sawcutt's help and the riding club's own gymkhana save the summer holidays?
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Ruby Ferguson (née Ashby) was born in Reeth, West Yorkshire in 1899, as the daughter of a Wesleyan Minister. She attended Bradford Girls’ Grammar School and then read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford between 1919 and 1922. After completing her MA, Ruby Ferguson moved to Manchester and started working as a secretary. Her writing was first published in the form of a regular column in British Weekly magazine, but her career really began when she entered some detective stories in a competition in the Manchester Evening News.

Her first full length novel was published in 1926, under the name R. C. Ashby, and she continued writing under this name until her marriage in 1934. It was after this that she started to write romantic novels, the most famous of which, Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary, has been reprinted by Persephone Books. The books for which Ferguson is best known are those about Jill Crewe and her ponies which she wrote for her step-grandchildren. Her final book, published in 1967, the year after her death, is titled The Children at the Shop and is a fictionalized autobiography of her childhood.

Ruby Ferguson

Jill's Gymkhana
A Stable for Jill
Jill has Two Ponies
Jill Enjoys her Ponies
Jill's Riding Club
Rosettes for Jill
Jill and the Perfect Pony
Pony Jobs for Jill
Jill's Pony Trek

Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary
The Moment of Truth
Our Dreaming Done
Winter's Grace
Turn Again Home
Apricot Sky
A Paintbox for Pauline
The Leopard's Coast
For Every Favour
Doves in My Fig-tree
The Cousins of Colonel Ivy
The Wakeful Guest
A Woman With a Secret
Children at the Shop: The Charming Autobiography of Childhood

R.C. Ashby

The Moorland Man
The Tale of Rowan Christie
Beauty Bewitched
Death at Tiptoe
Plot Against a Widow
He Arrived at Dusk
One Way Traffic
Out Went the Taper

Jane Badger Books' website contains an excellent feature on Ruby Ferguson and her pony books.

Wikipedia also has an article about Ruby Fergusson.