When they awoke the next morning, they decided to clear their heads by taking a ride around the farm on Lady and Gypsy. They had been so busy in the previous months getting Star ready for the show that they had almost neglected their two ponies. The ride to Lucky Foot Stable on their bikes was a silent one, each lost in her own thoughts and unwilling to share them. Jody was almost afraid to see Star with the possibility in the back of her mind that she might soon be parted from him. And Mary’s brain was working overtime trying to come up with a plan to prevent just such a thing from happening. As they pedaled up the gravel driveway of the farm, Star’s cheerful whinny of greeting from the paddock gate made Jody burst into tears again. “Oh, Mary, what are we going to do?” she whimpered as the girls parked their bikes just outside Lucky Foot. “Now, first you’ve got to stop crying,”
