At her last school, riding was on the curriculum, and Bobby used to ride Shelta, the chestnut Anglo-Arab mare for the school’s owners. All that has changed. The school’s owner was killed, the school has closed, and Shelta has been sold. Bobby is now living with her aunt and uncle, and has to go to a new school.No showjumping here. The only riding is a weekly potter on Captain Roberts’s tired and unenthusiastic horses. But there is another stable nearby: Bracken, owned by Guy Mathew...

Surely no horse could really be as kind and reliable and as perfect a performer as Minos appeared to be? Sooner or later, surely, a fault must appear ...Ellen, Bobby’s cousin, wants Bracken Stables to find a horse for her, and not just any horse. Ellen wants to ride at Badminton.They find a horse: beautiful, brave dun Minos. He never puts a foot wrong. If something’s not quite right, he will sort it out. Bobby can’t put her finger on what worries her about Minos. S...

Ginny works at a rundown urban stable. The horses are underfed and overworked but Ginny can’t see a way out. Then she meets Tamara, a dressage and stunt rider, and she offers Ginny a job.Tamara gets through grooms at the speed of light. After a serious riding accident wrecked her looks, she cannot trust anyone, and deals with this by driving anyone close to her away.At first Ginny blooms, even though Tamara is not a talented teacher, despite her brilliance at dressage. Grad...

"I can't really believe this is actually happening," said Bobby. "It was only this afternoon that everything seemed wonderful ...”A terrible freak air accident destroys part of Bracken stables, and leaves owner Guy Mathews in hospital, badly injured.Bobby and Heath are left to try and keep the stables going. It is a battle. Bobby has a new horse to school: Phoenix, but she also needs to teach his owner how to ride him. And then there is a disastrous ride where one ...

Gemma's mother wants her to win. Gemma's not so sure.Surely it must be a dream come true to have a mother obsessed with horses? A mother who is determined to propel you to the top of the horse world?But perhaps it isn’t when she pays no attention to what you think, and what you want.Gemma Conway and her mother don’t have much money, so all their horses are bargains. Mary Conway is convinced the latest one will get Gemma to the top, blowing away the memories of all h...

The Low Moor Pony Club is one of those pony clubs that never really achieves much. Most of the ponies live in a field overlooking the local pit, and most of the riders keep their ponies on a shoestring.They don’t enter teams for anything. Their rallies rely on Charity Whitford, one of the older members, doing the instructing herself.But the members are keen, and when Charity meets Laurence Croft, an international showjumper blinded in an accident, he is intrigued by the clu...