Hannah & Chris: Before the Circuit (Show Circuit Series Book 0) by Ablon Whitney Kim

Author:Ablon Whitney, Kim
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chris jumped Nova on Tuesday night in the $10K Open Jumper class. He chose to do the 2a instead of the speed. No need to run Nova off his feet. Nova jumped okay, but Chris still felt like something was off. He had one rail down and coming down the last line, Nova tripped. Both Chris and the horse recovered in plenty of time. Maybe the horse just stubbed his toe in the footing but it was uncharacteristic of Nova. Nova was incredibly athletic. He always seemed to have his legs in just the right place.

Harris called after the class. He’d watched the livestream but wanted to hear from Chris why the one rail had come down. Or rather, he wanted to tell Chis what he thought the reason was.

“I think it was the lights and the crowd,” Harris said before Chris could even begin to speak. The man always wanted to hear his own voice. Sometimes Chris couldn’t understand how a person like Harris could have so much success in business when he had no ability to listen to anybody else.

Chris knew Nova didn’t need to get used to the lights and crowd. Nova lived for the hype. He was the type of horse that grew four inches when he walked into the ring. Noise only served to pump him up and make him jump higher. He’d been fifth at the World Cup for God’s sake.

“It wasn’t the crowd,” Chris said. “He’s fine with atmosphere.”

“Maybe it’s good—he got a good rub for Thursday night,” Harris proclaimed.

Thursday night was the $100K Grand Prix of Devon. Harris would be flying in for that.

“Did you see him trip?” Chris said.

“No, where?”

“Down the last line. I still feel like something’s not right with the horse.”

Chris heard background noise on Harris’s end of the connection. He knew his few minutes with Harris were almost over. Harris’s workday never seemed to end. Even well after ten he was going strong. “What if we hold him out of the class? Just wait and make sure he’s fine,” Chris said.

“Hold him out of Thursday night? No. I gotta go. I’ll see you Thursday.”

If Harris hadn’t rushed off the line, Chris would have explained to him how if Nova got hurt, it could be the end of the horse’s career. Wasn’t sacrificing one class better than sacrificing a career? But he’d tried that before with Harris in terms of managing Nova’s schedule. Harris didn’t understand that a horse only had so many jumps in him, and he also didn’t understand how special a horse like Nova was. Sure, you could always find a good grand prix horse to jump the $50K to $100K classes. Those were in abundance and easily acquired. But the real good ones? The ones who could win on the international stage? They were rare. Chris knew they had one in Nova, the horse he’d selected as a seven year-old and brought along. Nova had the scope, the carefulness, and the attitude. So far he’d also had the soundness and durability.

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