Double Standards (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 20) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

With the second leg of the Talent Scout series only a week away, I threw myself into working Bluebird. His training had been a little neglected since my father’s accident and even though I’d been hacking him out and jumping him over a few fences, I knew that wasn’t going to cut it. The first class had been hard and I knew that the courses were only going to get more technical and with my father out of the picture and Missy tied up with lessons and her new best friend Sandy, I turned to Mr. Rivers for help.

I’d never actually taken a lesson with our cross country instructor before but I figured he was the best shot that Bluebird and I had and maybe he’d be able to tighten our jumping in a way that my father hadn’t been able to. After all a fresh set of eyes never hurt.

We showed up in the ring ahead of our scheduled lesson and I worked Bluebird a little on the flat to loosen him up. Mr. Rivers may have been one of the Fox Run trainers but he still had to earn a living and he wasn’t going to be teaching me out of the kindness of his heart. Instead I was paying for his time with my hard earned cash and I wanted to make every second count.

Mr. Rivers came over with a steel travel mug in one hand and a stopwatch in the other. He took a sip of what I assumed was coffee and nodded.

“I see you are all warmed up,” he said.

“Yes,” I said.

“Good, I thought we’d go into the woods today.”

He was a thin man with sharp angular features but he was good at his job. He’d once been on the Olympic team and even though he didn’t get to ride, he knew his stuff.

“I’m trying to polish up our jumping for the next Talent Scout show,” I said. “Don’t you think maybe working in the ring or the field would be better?”

“No,” he said. “I don’t.”

Ethan had said that Mr. Rivers was a task master but I didn’t realize that he was also kind of mean as well. Ethan had always said their lessons were fun but so far there didn’t seem anything fun about Mr. Rivers at all.

“Okay,” I said, following him out of the ring and across the field into the woods.

I hoped that whatever he was going to teach me was going to be worth it because I could go out on the trail myself and mess around jumping over the cross country jumps all day for free. In fact I did it all the time when I didn’t want to do any real work and without paying for it. I wondered if Mr. Rivers would give me a refund.

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