The Red Pony is one of the books Matilda reads in Matilda. Matilda is clearly made of sterner stuff than I was as a child (or am now!), because she describes the book as "lovely."

Meanwhile I am going "But buzzards are eating the horsy! And now Jodie is killing the buzzard! O.O O.O O.O" Why does Jodie wander around killing animals so much??