Liberty and the Dream Ride. Stacy Gregg
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Pony Club Secrets
Liberty and the Dream Ride
STACY GREGG
www.stacygregg.co.uk
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Source ISBN 9780007299317
Ebook Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780007427253
Version 2020-08-18
Congratulations and thanks to India Lambeth who won our competition to “name a pony”. India’s horse Avatar appears in this book.
For Parker, who arrived just in time. Here’s hoping that your future will be filled with ponies…
Contents
Coming Soon: Stacy Gregg’s Pony Club Secrets
Book One - Mystic and the Midnight Ride
Book Two - Blaze and the Dark Rider
Chapter 1
The horses inside the belly of the 747 cargo plane were restless. For eleven long hours they had been cooped up in their tiny stalls, unable to move or do anything more than nibble at their hay nets. Now, at last, they were almost there. Dawn was breaking across the skies above Los Angeles and very soon the plane would be landing and the horses would be craned down on to the tarmac in their shipping stalls, ready to be moved on to their final destinations.
There were three horses in the transporter stalls on this flight. In the first was a sleek mahogany bay Thoroughbred, bound for the racetracks of Flushing Meadows and Belmont. Too nervous to eat, the bay horse hadn’t touched his hay net for the entire journey. He was anxiously moving about in his tiny stall, disturbed by the whine of the plane engines and the strange smells and sounds all around him, an atmosphere so different to his serene life in the stables back home in England.
Beside the Thoroughbred, standing in the next stall, was a chestnut stallion. He was even bigger than the bay, standing at seventeen hands. He was solidly built, a heavy-set Oldenburg with a muscular physique that could have been carved from granite. The sire of countless colts and fillies, this Oldenburg stallion possessed a bloodline that was valuable beyond measure. Like the Thoroughbred, he had been restless throughout the flight, fretting and snorting at every sudden bump