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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 16, 2011 21:41:47 GMT -5
Taylor Moore and Skycat's Twister (Skylar) trotted into the outdoor ring, both feeling confident about their first practice at Starry Skies Equestrian School. Taylor spotted the barrels and turned her paint mare toward them. They flew around the barrels easily several times before Taylor noticed a girl and her horse standing outside the gate. Attachments:
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Apr 16, 2011 21:56:25 GMT -5
Kayla smiled as she watched the rider spin around the barrels. Marya flung his head up and neighed. Kayla rolled her eyes and pulled his reins. "Gee, Marya thanks for that." She said rubbing her ear from the loud neigh. "Hi, I'm Kayla." She said to the girl with a smile. "The drama king over here is Marya. Your pretty good, by the way." Kayla said with a smile. Barrels was one of her favorite things to do, besides show jumping. "Mind if I give them a try?" She asked patting her old gelding on the neck. He snorted and pawed the ground looking at the barrels. Oh he knew what was coming soon....
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 17, 2011 8:35:33 GMT -5
Taylor slowed Skylar down to a gentle trot and waved at Kayla. "Hi, Kayla. I'm Megan and this Skylar," she said patting her mare's neck. "Come on in. And thanks, I've been barrel racing for a long, long time."
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 17, 2011 11:14:10 GMT -5
On her way to get Dante from the pastures, Cassie walked past the Outdoor Ring. She stopped when she saw to girls on their horses, practicing barrell racing. She climbed up onto the first bar of the fence to watch. Her white-blonde ringlets swanned out behind her in the light breeze. She wore black jodphers -highlighting her slim waist and long legs- and a bright blue tank top, matching her electric blue eyes. She recognized the girls as Kayla and Taylor. Cassie had always enjoyed watching western riders, although she didn't particularly like to ride western and hadn't really done much of it. "Hey." she said to the girls when they noticed her.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 17, 2011 11:49:56 GMT -5
"Hey, Cassie!" Megan called to her friend. Dante whinnied to Skylar, but the mare didn't answer. She had always seemed kind of off around the stallion.
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 17, 2011 11:53:46 GMT -5
(Taylor* :L :L)
Cassie smiled at Taylor "Hey, Taylor, you okay?" She grinned, out of the people she'd met, Taylor was one of the nicest.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 17, 2011 12:28:22 GMT -5
"I'm great!" she said, smiling.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Apr 17, 2011 15:37:19 GMT -5
Kayla smiled. "Thanks. Marya hasn't worked barrels in about six months." Kayla said with a smile. She glanced at Cassie and smiled. "Hi! Cassie!" She said with a bright smile. She slipped into the ring and pulled herself on the Marya. She looked at Cassie. "This is Marya by the way. The one you met the other day was Jagger." She said with a smile. She clicked Marya forward and when he was warmed up she stopped in front of the barrels. She took three deep breaths and opened her eyes. "Get. Get!" She called and Marya shot into a gallop right of the bat. He spun around the firt barrel like an old pro. witch he was. Kayla Spun him around the second barrel in lightning speed. "Come on!" She called and he jumped into a faster gallop for the last barrel. On the way back he lowered himself to the ground and shot like an arrow. When he was past the first two barrels he cued him to rein in. He slid to a stop making dust fly up around him. Kayla smiled like the cat that sallowed the canry. "Npw that's what I call fun." She said with a smile.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 17, 2011 15:55:04 GMT -5
(I don't know why I put Megan, blazie...)
Taylor watched Kayla and Marya fly around the barrels and thought they looked great. "You guys are really good," she said, suddenly feeling inferior to them.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Apr 17, 2011 16:03:37 GMT -5
Kayla smiled. "Thanks." She said with a ear to ear smile. "I'v been barrel racing since I was 8 years old. And has been barrel racing for like 15 years." She said with a smile. "I just hang on for the ride." SHe said. Kayla never really did think she was good at barrel racing. She tended to the think that way cause she had a tendisy to think others had better skils then she did.
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 18, 2011 1:11:35 GMT -5
"Hey, Kayla." Cassie smiled and waved. She watched Kayla and her horse gallop round the barrells. "Theyre amazing." she said under her breath. As they skidded to a stop, she called out "You two are a amazing!" Kayla looked pretty impressed with herself. Cassie didn't blame her. "Do ya know, I've never ever ridden western in all my life." She'd always wanted to try it.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 19, 2011 18:16:23 GMT -5
Taylor looked at Cassie, trying to frown, but smiling instead. "Oh. My. Gosh. You've never ridden western before? How am I friends with you?!" Taylor exclaimed, sarcasticaly, letting go of the reins and placing her hands on her cheeks with a shocked expression. "Just kidding, Cassie. You should really try it sometime, it's fun and I'd let you ride Skylar if you want," she offered, patting Skylar's neck.
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 20, 2011 0:48:22 GMT -5
Cassie laughed at Taylor's comment. "That's be good, I'll have to try it someday. How come you ride western and not english? I couldn't live without jumping!" she smiled at the both of them and ran her fingers through her hair, coming out some knots.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 22, 2011 16:19:47 GMT -5
"I've always loved to try english and jumping, but I grew up in the south, so western riding was common down there and that's what I grew up on," Taylor said.
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 23, 2011 2:25:39 GMT -5
"Oh, cool. I've always wanted to try western too, but my mom was a riding instructor at a stables where they only rode English and I've just grown up riding English.! she shrugged.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 23, 2011 10:44:54 GMT -5
Taylor thought for a moment, "Isn't it hard to stay in the saddle sometimes, though? I mean, you don't have anything like a saddle horn to hold onto," she said, pointing to the horn on her saddle.
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 23, 2011 13:55:21 GMT -5
"Naaah. It's easy. You can have a go on D if ya like, though he might not be the best one to try English on! Y'know what with his loopiness n'all." She laughed.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 24, 2011 8:06:17 GMT -5
Taylor laughed too. "Yeah, I'm not sure D would be the best horse to ride for my first time," she said, thinking about all the disatrous things that Dante could do. "I'll probably just ride one of the lesson horses."
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 24, 2011 10:57:57 GMT -5
"Yeah! We should meet sometime, and do like a swap? Y'know, i ride western for a bit and you ride English! It'd be fun!" She grinned at Tay.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 24, 2011 14:15:36 GMT -5
Taylor smiled at her friend. "Yeah, that sounds like a great idea," she said, thinking about all the learning possibilities. "Not for too long, though, 'cause Skylar will probably be mad at me if I don't ride her after a while."
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 24, 2011 14:19:42 GMT -5
"'Course. We should ask Gena if we can use a lesson horse? I'm sure she wouldn't mind."
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 24, 2011 15:13:12 GMT -5
"Yeah, I think she'd be okay with it," Taylor said, smiling at her.
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 25, 2011 1:33:55 GMT -5
Cassie nodded. "So, we should ask her and maybe do it tomorrow?" she smiled.
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 25, 2011 15:39:43 GMT -5
Taylor nodded. "Yeah, it sounds really fun and Gena shouldn't turn us down. Not when we'd be learning so much," she said. "She's the owner, so she's probably all about learning!"
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 26, 2011 3:18:19 GMT -5
"Yeah, exactly!" she smiled, excitedly. (shall we make a post in the border stables? asking for gena? )
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 27, 2011 15:23:24 GMT -5
(Sure or we could mention it in the foaling thread ) "Is it hard to jump?" Taylor asked out of curiousity.
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 28, 2011 8:35:36 GMT -5
"Um.. well once you get the tecnique, no I spose. It depends... I dunno how to explain it, really." she smiled. "How 'bout barell racing?" (and ok in the foaling thread )
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on Apr 28, 2011 19:24:34 GMT -5
Taylor grimaced at Cassie jokingly. "It's not too hard if you know how to gallop, go around fast turns, not fall off, and have balance," she said, laughing. "Jumping sounds really fun."
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Post by blazieboy08 on Apr 29, 2011 14:13:46 GMT -5
"OK, gallop, check. Fast turns. No check. Not fall off, no check. Balance, ish. I don't think I'd be any good at barell racing." she grinned "And yeah it is, it feel slike your flying!"
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Post by Trophyhorse misses kmsnead on May 1, 2011 15:22:16 GMT -5
"I think I'd be okay at jumping if I'm able to balance in the English saddle," Taylor said, thinking about how hard it might be if she rode English.
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