Catherine Carey

I can't find much info about this author. Her books are in general enjoyable reads, although not quite in the top rank of the pony book genre. On the whole they are aimed at slightly older teenagers with some of the characters being in their late teens.

The author does try to look a little more deeply at some important issues, such as the downside of the 'pony dream' in Show Jumping Summer, and there is a character in Because of a Pony who is suffering from a personality disorder and has a mental breakdown, but they are not thorough explorations of the psyche by any means.

The worst of the lot in my opinion is Grey Arrow in which a horrific Mills and Boon type domineering hero subjects our heroine to all sorts of indignities... 

There were no series. The books were all stand-alones.

Pony Books:

GREY ARROW
(LUTTERWORTH 1967)
Republished in paperback by Lutterworth
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition, paperback
SUMMARY: Pony story for older teenagers. Melanie is having trouble with beautiful but unschooled mare Grey Arrow. A local farmer's son helps her with her horse and romance develops.
PONYMAD VIEW: Standard fare pony story for older teens which is marred by the truly awful 'hero' whose bullying attitude to the heroine will cause any reader with feminist tendancies (like myself) to jump up and down in rage! Needless to say my copy has been dumped!
PONYMAD RATING: HORSE DROPPING BOOBY PRIZE

SHOW JUMPING SUMMER
(LUTTERWORTH 1969)
Republished in paperback by Lutterworth
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition, paperback
SUMMARY: Melrose is one of the top junior show jumpers in the country with a string of horses to ride. But far from  it being a dream come true, Melrose longs for a normal life away from the stressful world of the show ring. Set at a slightly older readership than the norm.
PONYMAD RATING: 3 HORSESHOES

PINK PONY
(LUTTERWORTH 1969)
Reprinted in hardback by Lutterworth
SUMMARY: Pony story about a girl who trains a strawberry roan filly.
PONYMAD RATING: 3 HORSESHOES

BECAUSE OF A PONY
(LUTTERWORTH 1971)
SUMMARY: Two friends have twin ambitions in life: to become good riders and to experience an exciting adventure. They find their efforts at the former hampered by a fuddy-duddy riding instructress. As for adventure, they almost miss it, even when it is right under their noses!
PONYMAD RATING: 3 HORSESHOES

THE NAMELESS PONY
(LUTTERWORTH 1972)
SUMMARY: Pony story set in Northumbria. Non-horsy Shelly is dismayed when she must stay with her horse-mad cousins in their peel tower house in the wilds of Northumbria.  Hpowever when she discovers the nameless pony her life begins to change dramatically in a number of ways.
PONYMAD RATING: 2-3 HORSESHOES

Collectors Info:
The books were all published as part of the Crown Pony Library series by Lutterworth. Grey Arrow and Show Jumping Summer were reprinted as Crown paperbacks and these are the most commonly seen of all the books. The others were not reprinted at all. The hardest two to find are Because of a Pony and The Nameless Pony. The books appear to be findable in Australia, although harder to track down in the USA. There were also German and French editions, although I do not yet know which titles.