Pony Jumpers 3- Triple Bar by Kate Lattey

Author:Kate Lattey [Lattey, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: E, YA
Published: 2015-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Katy was right. While the judge had eventually conceded that she’d been wrong not to stop the clock when I’d pulled Skip up, she’d insisted that I hadn’t been going quickly enough around the track to have made the time, and would’ve incurred at least one time fault. Dad argued the point, but she’d threatened to have me eliminated from the class because he was abusing the officials, so he’d been forced to back down. Buck had still gone well around the jump off to finish in third, and Katy had won the class, so it hadn’t been entirely disastrous. Just disappointing.

The good part though, was that Katy was livid on my behalf. She was still grumbling about it as we sat in their truck that afternoon, and eventually Deb got so sick of listening to her that she told us all to take the ponies for a ride.

“Go on, get them out of the yards and let them stretch their legs. They’ve been shut up in there all morning.”

“Lies. Puppet and Gull jumped already, so did Molly. It’s just Forbes that hasn’t been ridden,” Katy replied, tearing open a muesli bar and taking a bite.

“And Squib,” AJ added, leaning over and stealing a mouthful of her friend’s snack before Katy could snatch it away. “Yum, that’s nice. But they’ve got a class later.”

“Not until at least four, at the rate that ring’s going,” Deb said. “They’ll be climbing the walls by then.”

She had a point. The ground was a bit soft in the second ring and horses had been skidding and sliding all day long. Katy snorted and threw her half-eaten muesli bar onto the seat next to her.

“That’s because stupid people don’t put studs in their horses’ shoes and then wonder why they fall on their butts.” She shot a look at AJ that I didn’t understand, then stood up. “Fine, let’s go then.”

AJ got to her feet, grabbing the rest of Katy’s muesli bar on her way, and I followed reluctantly.

“I’ll just go do some homework then.” I didn’t mean it to sound the way it did, like I was mad at being left behind, but from the expression on Katy’s face, I think that’s how she heard it.

“Gross,” AJ said through a mouthful of food. “Homework sucks. Why don’t you come with us?”

“You gonna double her on Squib?” Katy asked.

AJ snorted. “Only if Susannah’s got a death wish. But you were saying this morning that you need to get Puppet out of his yard more at shows. Why doesn’t she ride him for you?”

Katy looked indecisive, swinging a lead rope back and forth in her hand, but Deb stepped in.

“That’s a good idea. And it’ll do Puppet good to have a different rider for once.”

Her daughter scowled at her. “I don’t think a stranger on his back is what he needs when he’s trying to learn to be relaxed, actually.” She looked at me. “But you could ride Forbes, I guess.”

“Sure, if you like.” I tried hard to control my voice, to sound relaxed about it.

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