Michelle Bates

Tom is excited when he gets the opportunity to care for his spoiled cousin Georgina's horse for the summer, but when Chancey arrives at Sandy Lane Stables, it is obvious the animal has been misused, and Tom spends weeks retraining the horse to ride in the big show only to have Georgina return early and ruin all his plans.

When Tom is left a prize-winning showjumper for the summer, things don't turn out quite as he'd hoped.

A riding vacation in Kentucky should be perfect for Izzy Paterson and Kate Hardy. They find themselves spending more time cleaning out stalls and grooming than riding and want to know why.

"I can't! I'm not riding again!" No matter how often Charlie repeats the words, his friends simply won't believe him. After all, he has a place at racing school starting in a couple of months. Just what could have happened to make him so scared?

Lucy and Tom visit their mother in the hospital when their baby sister is born.

Ben Bell, who has an earache and needs an operation, enters the hospital.

When the bridle-less and rider-less Palomino pony clatters into the yard, Jess doesn't flinch. Thanks top her quick reactions the beautiful pony is caught. Hot on the pony's hooves comes a man waving a head collar. But the man chasing the Palomino is not all he seems, and soon Jess is bitterly regretting her moment of heroism.