Nightstorm and the Grand Slam

Nightstorm and the Grand Slam
Stacy Gregg

It’s the final Pony Club Secrets adventure for Issie and Storm (book 12) – can they become the youngest team to win the triple Grand Slam ever? Don’t miss the explosive finale to the Uk’s bestselling pony series.Issie exceeded her wildest riding dreams winning at the Lexington Kentucky four-star trials, but could there be even bigger prizes on the horizon?Her foal, Nightstorm, has grown up to be an incredible sporthorse – powerful, fast and eager to win, so it’s time to put their riding skills to the ultimate test and see if they can complete the hat-trick and win at Badminton and Burghley too!

Nightstorm and the Grand Slam

Stacy Gregg

Copyright

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2011

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PONY CLUB SECRETS. Text Copyright © Stacy Gregg 2011. Illustrations © Fiona Land 2011. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Ebook Edition © MAY 2011 ISBN: 9780007435883

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Contents

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Map

Nightstorm and the Grand Slam

Chapter 1

It was day one of the Badminton Horse Trials. The…

Chapter 2

With the dressage behind them, the Laurels team were now…

Chapter 3

Mystic stamped a hoof impatiently against the gravel and looked…

Chapter 4

Issie felt like she had only just fallen asleep when…

Chapter 5

Issie and Avery arrived back at the horse truck that…

Chapter 6

There was a stunned silence in the horse truck and…

Chapter 7

After Nightstorm’s bout of colic, Issie was worried sick that…

Chapter 8

The last person in the world Issie had expected to…

Chapter 9

Oliver Tucker surveyed his surroundings, running a property developer’s eye…

Chapter 10

In the final week of the lead-up to Burghley, preparations…

Chapter 11

Issie’s hands were trembling at her throat as she tried…

Chapter 12

On the sidelines, the crowd who had seen Victory fall…

Chapter 13

Oliver Tucker unbuckled the sling and took hold of Victory’s…

Chapter 14

It was a moment of madness, but it was too…

Chapter 15

Back at the ‘hold box’, Avery did his best to…

Chapter 16

The prize-giving was preceded by a display by the Belvoir…

Epilogue