Rider by Night

Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1960, trans Annabelle MacMillan, 192 pp.

Scholastic, New York, pb, 1971, illus Charles W Walker, 192 pp.

Jenny is lucky.  Her uncle has offered her a horse for her very own from his stud.  And Jenny decides on Rascal,
the bay Thoroughbred mare-cross mare with the wide eyes and lovely conformation.  She is the only teenager at
her local riding school to have a horse of her own, and when it soon becomes clear that Rascal is probably one of
the if not THE best horse in the stable, Jenny has to contend with jealousy as well as her enjoyment of having and
riding Rascal.  However, it isn’t until Rascal starts showing some peculiar habits that Jenny realises that not all is
as it should be.  In one final night matters come to a head and her questions are all answered – but not necessarily
in the way she thought they would.

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