Boot Camp (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 24) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

Bluebird stood there quietly as I showed Cat how to brush him and pick out his feet.

“It smells,” she said as the hoof pick knocked the poop out of his hooves.

“Well that’s life with horses,” I said. “You get used to it. In fact I kind of like the smell.”

“You like the smell of poo?” she said. “That’s just gross.”

“Well not exactly that smell,” I said as I pressed my face against Bluebird's coat and breathed in deeply. “This one.”

“Your mom is right.” Cat shook her head. “You are weird.”

“I know,” I said. “And if you fall in love with horses then maybe you’ll be weird too.”

“Maybe,” she said. “If I don’t have to do this hoof picking thing too much.”

“You have to do it every day,” I said.

“Every day?” she said.

“Every day,” I replied.

“Fine, whatever, what is next?” she said.

I showed her how to curry Bluebird's coat and then brush it and how to get the tangles out of his tail without breaking any of his hairs. We placed the saddle pad on his back making sure that the hair was flat beneath it and I let her put the saddle on and then corrected it when she put it too far back. When we tightened the girth, Cat made a face.

“Doesn’t that hurt?” she said.

“No,” I replied.

“But why do you have to do it so tight?”

“It’s not that tight,” I said, slipping my hand beneath it. “But if it’s too loose then it's not going to hold the saddle in place once you get up in it and I’m pretty sure you don’t want to end up swinging under his belly, do you?”

“Definitely not,” Cat said.

I put the bridle on and showed her how to put four fingers in the throatlatch to make sure it wasn’t too tight and how to do the noseband so that it was snug enough so he couldn’t open his mouth and get his tongue over the bit.

“One is tight, one is loose. How am I supposed to keep it all straight?” Cat said.

“You’ll get the hang of it,” I said. “Come on, now it's the fun part.”

“Are you sure?” she said. “Because so far it just seems like a lot of hard work.”

“It is a lot of hard work,” I replied. “But it is totally worth it.”

“It had better be,” Cat said grumpily.

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