Pony Club Secrets 02- Blaze and the Dark Rider by Stacy Gregg

Author:Stacy Gregg [Gregg, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: E, YA
ISBN: 9780007340675
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
Published: 2009-08-06T04:00:00+00:00

The next night, a second meeting of the secret pony-club gang was called. This time, though, the mood was much more serious in the clubroom as Issie told the others about the poisoned horse feed. Of course she skipped the bit about Mystic, telling the others that she had noticed the strange smell herself and the empty bottle of selenium and had figured out that someone must have put it into Blaze’s feed bin.

Everyone was quiet for a long while when Issie finished her story. And then finally Kate spoke: “Well, I think we should tell the police,” she said.

“Tell them what?” Dan snorted. “That someone spilt a bottle of supplement into a tub of horse feed? Big deal! That sounds like an accident to me. We need to find someone with a motive, a reason to hurt Blaze.”

“I can think of someone,” Stella piped up. The others all turned to look at her. “Oh, come on! It’s so obvious!” Stella said. “It was Francoise! It had to be!”

She turned to Issie. “You’ve already found her lurking around the tack room once, and now here she is again. She’s the one who cut the stirrup leathers—obviously she meant to hurt you and got poor Annabel by mistake. Now that’s failed she’s trying to poison Blaze. Issie, it has to be her!”

Issie felt her chest tightening. Could it be true? Was Francoise really trying to hurt Blaze?

“What if it wasn’t Francoise?” Issie said. “You’re all just assuming it was her. But what if it’s not? Francoise has no reason to hurt Blaze or me. Maybe she’s not the one who did this, and while we’re wasting our time on Francoise the person who is really causing the trouble is still out there!”

“Issie, calm down,” Dan said. “I think Stella is right. It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? There have been too many strange coincidences since this Francoise turned up. Why is this woman interested in you and your horse? I think there’s something fishy going on and you have to face the fact that she’s behind it.”

“Well, what if she is?” said Ben. “We still can’t tell the police. We don’t have any proof.”

“We’ll have to get some.” Kate nodded.

“But I keep telling you,” Issie was furious now, “Francoise had no reason to do this. What if she hasn’t done anything wrong?”

“Issie, I can’t believe you are still standing up for her!” Stella snapped back. “After all she’s done. If Blaze had eaten that feed she would have been sick. So would Toby and Coco if they had eaten any. So she’s putting our horses in danger too! You have to face up to the fact that Francoise is the one behind all of this or other horses may be hurt as well as Blaze.”

Issie looked around the room at her friends in disbelief. The room went quiet once more as the five friends stood there, not speaking.

“I think we should take a vote,” Ben said finally. “All those who think it was Francoise raise your hands.

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