How to play The Saddle Club: Willowbrook Stables on Mac

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Game summary

The most exciting Saddle Club adventure yet might also be the most difficult–and this time you won’t have the rest of the Saddle Club to help you. A friend of the Regnerys’s has invited Stevie, Lisa, and Carole for a holiday at Willowbrook Stables on Coventry Island. But only one girl and her horse can go, so you’ll have to choose which member of the Saddle Club you want to be. And once on the island you’ll have to solve a baffling mystery to save Willowbrook Stables from the evil property developer trying to take over. The island is a complex and colourful world of sights and sounds. It is home to over 30 characters, most of whom have lived there all their lives. Even though the other Saddle Club members won’t be with you, you can still keep in touch and tell them all about Willowbrook Stables and your adventures. Other horse-crazy kids on the island will help you in your quest to save the stables. The skills that Lisa, Carole, and Stevie learned at Pine Hollow will come in handy in your investigations, as horses are just as important on Coventry Island as they are in Willow Creek. Ride all over in search of golden horseshoe clues and collect important information from interesting characters. You can get additional clues and track your progress in your personal game diary. If you solve all the clues, you’ll uncover secrets that have remained hidden on Coventry Island for decades. You will have to be careful, though, as others are trying to solve the mystery, too–people who will stop at nothing to do so. If someone beats you, Willowbrook Stables will be lost forever.
First released: Dec 2003

Play The Saddle Club: Willowbrook Stables on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play The Saddle Club: Willowbrook Stables on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

The Saddle Club: Willowbrook Stables installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install The Saddle Club: Willowbrook Stables like you would on any PC.
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