Mystic and the Midnight Ride

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Mystic and the Midnight ride is the first book in the Pony Club Secrets series. It is the first book by bestselling author Stacy Gregg, who wrote many novels such as the Pony Club Secrets series, The Princess and the Foal, The Thunderbolt Pony, and The Fire Stallion.

Synopsis
The first Pony Club Secrets mystery adventure by bestselling author of The Princess and the Foal. Issie loves horses more than anything! And she especially loves her pony Mystic at Chevalier Point Pony Club. So when the unthinkable happens, Issie is devastated. Then her instructor asks her to care for Blaze, an abandoned pony, and Issie's riding skills are really put to the test. Will she tame the spirited new horse Blaze? And can Mystic somehow return to help her... Find out in the first Pony Club Secrets mystery adventure from the bestselling author of 'The Princess and the Foal'.

Plot
Isadora Brown and her friends Kate Knight and Stella Tarrant catch their horses and quickly groom them for the seasons first gymkhana. Their horses Mystic, Toby and Coco are then loaded into a horse truck along with the girls to the event by Tom Avery. They then face the first event of the day, Paced and Mannered. Issie and her horse Mystic are in the ring and doing well in the competition until the horse in front stops too quickly and they end up catching the eye of the judge, therefore not winning a ribbon. She then goes into the next round before being approached by Dan Halliday, who asked her if she is nervous, promptly making her have a bet with him on who will win. She then comes second to him. The third place position was taken by Natasha Tucker, a girl with wealthy parents who had recently bought her a pony, Goldrush. However she wasn’t behaving, prompting Natasha to hit her with a whip, hard. This spooked Goldrush and made her fling off Natasha and run away, untying Toby and Coco in the process. Issie then realised that someone had left the main gate open, and the horses were running onto the road. She tried to catch up to them on Mystic, successfully herding them back towards the gate until a truck came hurtling down the road. Mystic quickly flung Issie off his back, saving her life by sacrificing himself.

Issie woke up in hospital, immediately asking her mum if Mystic was okay. Amanda replied that Mystic had died, but had flung her out of the way before the truck hit, saving her life.