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Caleb noticed the girl and smiled at her to be friendly. He then continued with angel. Hee try and atleast get a halter on her today.. he had the halter in hand and placed the halter on her head fastening it. The mare than reared and cantered around the round pen. Caleb had pulled a mussle in his shoulder. He muttered something but continued working. Caleb left the mare alone and chucked out a bale of hay. He moved his shoulder helping it and went to whiskey. He let the stallion out and let the calf out in a small pen to play. |
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Taylor Browns - Taylor didn't notice the boy smile at her, and she kept running towards the woods. Once the lake came into view Taylor counted a few more strides before dropping the canter and going to a trot. When she arrived, Taylor slowed Houdini down, and dismounted. She loosely tied Houdini's reins to a tree so he wouldn't be able to get away, but slack enough so that the gelding could graze. She then proceeded to take her jeans off, exposing her bathing suit bottoms. Leaving her jeans on the lake shore, Taylor walked into the water slowly, inch by inch, letting the water slowly take her. When it got too deep for her to touch, she turned around and let her body float starfish in the lake. |
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Caleb's job today was to work a horse. The horse was supposed to be trained in jumping but Caleb hadn't jumped since an accident he had while jumping. He used to jump intentionally with his old horse bolt. Bolt passed away in the accident. Caleb tacked up the horse and walked her to the jumping areana. She was to be jumping 90cm and Caleb set up the jumps. He saw another stable hand walk past who was half laughing at him "and why do I have to do this again?" He asked the head groom. "You know about the accident" the groom told him he was the best jumper here so he had to. Caleb rolled his eyes and mounted the mare. He cantered her around before going over a 70cm jump then moving onto the higher ones. |
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Taylor Browns - Taylor stayed in the water for a while before she swam back to shore and got out. She then let herself air dry a bit before pulling on her shorts again. Untieing and mounting the dark bay gelding, she made her way back to the barn. Arriving not much later, she dismounted and untacked Houdini, putting him away in his paddock. Remembering the calf, she walked over to the little baby cow. She didn't see the boy anywhere and it was lunch time, so I guess she was doing lunch feeding today. Taylor left the calf for a moment, but came back with a full bottle of milk for the calf. She knew she could just pour the milk into the feeder, but she prefered to bottle feed the calf. Entering the stall, Taylor returned to her spot sitting in the stall. The cute little calf came trotting over again, and immediately started suckling on the bottle. Taylor couldn't help but smile and giggle at the calf, she was so cute! |
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caleb was jumping the 90cm jumps. the mare knocked a pole and an older groom put it back up and spoke "relax caleb you being tense wont help her jump any better" the groom explained. caleb half glanced at him. "youd understand if you were there. i dont want it to happen again. why do you think i quit jumping" he said with a frown and continued to jump the mare. |
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Taylor Browns - Taylor fed the little calf all of her lunch and put away the bottle. She heard some comotion outside and she went to go investigate. She didn't bother putting anything else on, she was still wearing her pink bikini top and jean shorts. To her surprise she found Caleb... jumping? She knew something had happened with him and his old jumping horse, but she didn't know the specifics of what happened. She walked over to the side of the arena fence, and leaned against. The other groom spotted her, and walked over to stand on the other side of the fence, inside the arena. The pair looked stiff and uncomfortable together. Taylor knew that mare could jump, she'd jumped her before and she was perfect. Taylor knew the mare could also jump quite a bit higher. "Caleb is too tense... the mare is anxious and performing badly because of it." she said to the other groom, her eyes on Caleb. If she was gonna be honest, Caleb looked too bulky and big to be on that horse. It was kinda funny. |
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the mare knocked another pole and caleb stopped the mare and dismouned. he couldnt do it. the groom told him to get back on and wouldnt let him lead the mare out so caleb let the mare go and ducked under the arena fence and walked off. he went into the round pen and sat in there leaning on the fence. angel looked at him head held low looking at him. |
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Taylor Browns - "Go get that horse, and deal with her, please." she demanded the groom, before turning on her heel and running after Caleb. Taylor found him, sitting inside the round pen with his other horse. She plopped herself down next to him, allowing a moment of silence to fill the space between them before she spoke. "What happened?" she asked evenly, not talking about the training session, but about the accident, giving the boy a soft look. Normally Taylor would've felt very exposed, and wouldn't normally just be wearing a bikini top and jeans, especially in front of Caleb, but she could tell Caleb needed to talk about this, and she wasn't about to leave him just to change. |
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caleb didnt look at her. "me and my old horse bolt jumped internationaly. one day at a show there was an issue with someones horse so me and bolt went. it was our fastest round yet and we made it to jump offs. we jumped the last jump on the jump offs and bolt stepped in a hole. he flipped and died on impact. i was crushed and ive never jumped since. |
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Taylor Browns - Taylor listened as Caleb spoke, and took in his words. She put a gentle hand on his arm, trying to comfort the boy. "I'm so sorry, Caleb... that must've been awful. No one deserves to go through that." she said sympathetically, giving the boy a soft look. She looked away, but kept her hand on his arm. Taylor understood what he'd gone though quite a bit actually. "I understand... what it feels like? I know..." she said shakily. "When I was 8, we went swimming in the river in our backyard. My mom had died years ago, and my dad wasn't the best, so it was just me, my siblings and our family dog, Moose. My older sister, Eloise, had warned us about going too far into the river, but I didn't listen. It was a hot day, and I just ran in. I went too far out into the river, and my foot got caught in between two rocks..." she said, lifting up her foot to show the scar on the bottom. "The current started to drag me under, and I was about to drown, when Moose came paddling up to save me. Moose pulled me free from the rocks and I started paddling for my life back to shore.I thought Moose was right behind me, but he had gotten too tired and was swept away by the current and drowned." she said sadly, remembering her dog. "We didn't tell our dad off this event because we wouldn't have been able to go back down to the river again if we did. My dad thought Moose had just ran off. But apparently, I had water stuck inside my lungs. It was only until my lungs where so badly damaged from the water inside them, I could barely breathe and needed a double lung transplant that we did ever tell dad the full story." she finished, lifting her bathing suit top up just a few centimeters to expose the long thin curvy scar.
"At first, I was terrified of water, wouldn't even go near a dripping faucet. But eventually, I went swimming again, and now I love the water. Swimming now reminds me of my Moose, and how he was such a good boy for saving me." she finished. "My point is, is that you can jump again if you wanted too. By the sounds of it, your're really good, just out of practice. You don't have to start today, this week, this month, or even this year, but I know you can get over your fear if you tried. And I'll be there with you every step of the way, ok?" she really finished this time, and dropped her hand down to his, intertwining their fingers. Taylor didn't do this for the purpose of being romantic or flirty, but her friend needed comforting, and thats how she did it. |
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