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Horse: Principal Boy
Rider: Scott Taylor
Competition: SageSinRiddle's OVEC FEI Champs CCI***
Number: 205
Phase: Showjumping
Placing: 10th fav.me/d3phvf9

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNT-e8…
I'm STILL listening to far too much Radio 1 :)

Another one that REALLY came out better than expected. :love:

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The weather did an almost total u-turn for the final day of competition. The ground remained damp and muddy underfoot, but the air was warmer, the breeze receded, the rain non-existent. The Brits in the crowd were queuing outside bar tents for Pimm's and lemonade and one or two socks-and-sandals wearers had been spotted. Laura had even put sun cream on Moony's nose.

Scott was opting to clear away his pre-competition nerves with a spate of autograph signing up at the barrier. Laura idly took a body brush over Prince's gleaming coat, Marcus watching, sure it couldn't get too much shinier, or the saddle might slip off. Laura seemed to be thinking the same because she chucked the brush away, checking her phone for the time.

“You'd have thought he'd have signed everybody's autograph books by now, for goodness' sakes. We're not even on the VIP list this time.” Laura said, exasperatedly.

“Did you see those girls who were filming his backside when he was course walking the other day?” Marcus asked lazily, completely at ease since his competition was over. “He turned around and caught them at it and they got their photos with him and all that.”

“That's actually hilarious. Does Steph know yet?” Laura asked, massaging Prince's ears.

“Don't even, Laura.” It was evident to the yard staff that Steph and Scott were on rocky ground. After the last event, they'd had words – loud ones – in the feed room, delaying feeding time for the horses by half an hour until Eleanor shooed them out. Despite this interruption the argument hadn't continued, to anybody's awareness, and there was an air of unease about the couple if the topic of communications or familiarity with anybody of the opposite sex was broached. Scott blamed it on Steph's summer reading, banks of chick lit novels whose plots focused on unfaithful lovers. Steph blamed it on Scott's being unused to commitment.

“I wasn't going to do anything!” Laura protested. “It's a funny story...I suppose I can't tell Ellie yet then.”

“No.” Marcus said firmly, getting up when he saw Scott coming back over. “Ready for your final round?”

“As I'll ever be.” Scott answered sagely, patting Prince's neck before untying him and hopping into the saddle. “Come on, boy. One minute in that arena and we'll be sorted.” Without another word to Marcus or Laura he beat a path to the warm up ring, leaving them to tidy up the horsebox and make their own way over.
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Time: Approx 4/5 hours
Reference: Jemma Kirk and Tosca, photograph by Horse & Hound
Brushes: None
Layers: A fewwww

Art & charas (c) :iconoakhollowd:
OVEC etc (c) :iconsagesinriddle:
British Eventing & Ariat logos (c) British Eventing and Ariat respectively.
HorseArt-RPG concept (c) :iconmoonfeather:
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