"He's erected two tents on the lawn, produced three cooking stoves, and goes on and on about the magnetic North."

Competitive parents are nothing new. The Woodbury Pony Club are going on a three-day trek over the Downs. Alice is delighted but Hanif is in despair – all he wants is a quiet time with his friends, but his super-competitive stepfather has other ideas. Even a trek can be turned into a competition. But the trek doesn't go the way anyone expected, and the idea of competition fades when a pony's life is at stake.