It's Carole's birthday and The Saddle Club is planning an extra-special celebration. They're having their first boy-girl party, which will include a romantic moonlit hayride.

Lisa Atwood is getting tired at being the only one at the Saddle Club meetings, and it's beginning to look like there won't be a Saddle Club much longer.

The girls in The Saddle Club are making New Year's resolutions, and keeping them won't be easy. To keep themselves on track, the girls have made a bet. The first one to break her resolution must pay a price, and it won't be cheap!

When Max Regnery, manager at Pine Hollow Stables, begins acting strangely, Lisa, Carole, and Stevie decide to find him a girlfriend, but Max is not exactly happy to be the focus of the girls' schemes.

Veronica arranges for the Saddle Club to be stuck at Pine Hollow tending her horse, Danny, the night of the big Willow Creek spring dance, but instead the club surprises everyone by bringing Danny to the dance.

Carole Hanson is furious when Veronica diAngelo questions her ability to fairly judge the horse show that her two best friends are competing in, but Veronica may be right.

The girls of the Saddle Club have headed West to the Bar None Ranch. This time they've brought their friend, Emily, who has cerebral palsy. Emily is going to help the ranch's owner make it accessible to riders with special needs. Then the four girls meet a guest their own age. She's a former rider who has lost part of her leg in a motorbike accident. She doesn't plan to get on a horse ever again.

"It's the invitation of a lifetime. When Judy Barker, the Pine Hollow veterinarian, offers Lisa a chance to visit the stables at the racetrack, Lisa jumps at the opportunity. She's been working on her skills as a photographer, and she'd love to take pictures of some of the Thoroughbreds--especially a beautiful stallion that's training for the upcoming Preakness race."--Cover.