Show Days (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 32) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

The clouds were already building by the time I tacked up Rags. He was not amused. He didn’t want to work and I didn’t blame him. I didn’t really want to either but I figured that since Rae hadn’t given me any sort of lesson plan I could just lightly hack him around and make sure that he wasn’t too wound up before the trailer ride.

He was being silly though, freaking out at normal things like his saddle pad. He swung away from me as I put it on his back even though I’d done so gently.

“You’re alright,” I told him, patting his neck but he snorted anyway. “Crazy horse,” I added.

I didn’t know where Rae would find someone who would want a horse that couldn’t remember that a saddle pad wasn’t going to eat him but I guess maybe there was someone out there for him somewhere. I kind of felt like every horse had a person waiting for them just like every person had a soul mate and it was just a matter of finding them and bringing them together.

“Maybe you’ll find a new owner at the next show,” I said.

One of the new horses had already found one. The trailer came to pick the bay mare up just as I was getting ready to go out to the ring. Now we were just left with Storm, the pretty gray that I secretly drooled over when no one was looking.

“Is it okay if I put Bluebird in the empty stall?” I asked Julio as he took the horse out to the trailer. “It’s so muggy. There isn’t even a breeze. He deserves a little fan time after his win this morning.”

Julio grunted, which I took to mean yes. He seemed to be warming up to my pony now that he was proving himself to be a winner and not just a weird outcast that I should have outgrown years ago. I ran out and grabbed Bluebird and put him in the now empty stall. Jessica looked over and I waited for her to say that it wasn’t fair but she didn’t. I don’t think she cared enough about Rocket to make the effort and anyway, life on the road was cutthroat and you had to jump at the opportunities that came your way. You couldn’t just wait for someone to hand them to you on a silver platter. I was learning that if you wanted something, you had to ask for it.

I left my pony inside, cooling under the fan and sniffing around the bedding for stray pieces of hay and walked Rags out to the ring. It was already cloudy but the heat was oppressive. Soon a storm would come to break that heat but until it did it was like riding in a sauna.

After adjusting the girth and making sure that Rags hadn’t blown himself up, I got on and let him walk on a loose rein but he spooked at something I couldn’t

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