Horseback Riding RP!

ooc: whoops! sorry guys i havent been online much. my horse is made up too. i wish it was real :(

ic: Jasmine decided to go outside and take Taffy for a ride. "Hello, Taffy!" said Jasmine as she stroked Taffy's nose. "Ready for a walk? Here, I brought you a treat." she took an apple out of her pocket and fed it to Taffy. Jasmine put on her helmet and geared up Taffy as she got on. "Lets go, girl" whispered Jasmine to Taffy as they started moving.
 
Jade looked around, "Well, I'm gonna head to my jumping course," she said quietly. "I'll see you all later I suppose!"

With that, and a quick tup on the reigns, the black Arabian streaked off into the horizon.
 
"See ya!" Sophie called and turned Duchess in a random direction before she went sprinting off at such a speed that Sophie had to squeeze her mane tightly to avoid falling off.
 
Lucky waved as the two rode off, but immidetialy had to return her right hand to Randy's right rein. Although she had almost laughed when Jade had said that Randy was wild, Lucky knew that, in a way, he really was. The reason she had pulled one of the 'I shouldn't be smiling right now' smiles is that everyone thought Randy was wild.

She decieded to head off to the dressage arena. Although both her and Randy had a dislike for it, Lucky knew that it helped them in so many other areas. She pulled on the right rein, and Randy spun on his hindquarters, and then set off at a trot. Lucky quickly corrected him, slowing him back down to a walk. Once he responded, Lucky pat him, and let him walk for a while before setting off at a trot towards the arena.
 
Sophie was still hanging on for dear life as the blur that was Duchess zoomed through the forest. "Whoa,Duchess!!!" she exclaimed. Duchess slowed to a trot, and finally a walk, as she heard Sophie's voice. "You're a good girl,Duchess,but we'll need a lot of practice before the show," said Sophie quietly. She spun Duchess around in a circle and told her to stand on her hind legs for a little practice. She did as she was told. Sophie patted her."Nice job," she said,throwing Duchess a carrot she had been saving in her pocket. Duchess caught and ate it. Duchess and Sophie practiced with different speeds and leaps for a while before Sophie suggested that Duchess should take a break for a while to get some rest. Duchess tugged at the reins, saying that she wasn't tired yet. "All right," Sophie said. "We can ride some more." Duchess neighed happily and galloped farther into the woods.
 
Once arriving at the arena, Randy halted suddenly, sending Lucky forward in the saddle a little bit.

"Randy, Randy, Randy ... when will you ever learn that this is good for you?" Lucky asked while applying leg pressure to his sides. Randy ignored the signals, and tried to drop his head to eat the grass around his hooves. For a moment, Lucky considered using spurs on the horse, but decided to give the gelding a couple more days to pull his act together.

Lucky gave a small kick to her horse's sides, and he stomped his foot, as if telling Lucky : I am staying here no matter what. Lucky sighed, and gave another kick to his sides, this one more firm than the previous one. Randy bolted off, but at least he was heading into the dressage arena. Lucky didn't even want to know what kind of score she would get with an entrance like the start of the Kentucky Derby.

Kentucky Derby ...

It pulled her into the story of Randy's old owners. They had been hoping to find the next Seattle Slew, the next Affirmed, the next Seabiscuit. So they went to a small farm in Texas, and picked up the spirited Randy, not even asking for his papers first. They weren?t very experienced with horses ... When they found out he was not purebred, and hence, not able to become the next Seattle Slew or the next Affirmed, they looked to sell him.

Before they could sell him, they used him to catch runaway racehorses. Once huge leap in the wrong direction for Randy's current training. He had galloped freely with a rider, and set his mind to catching the horse, and nothing else mattered. Randy had a one track mind. Now, whenever he was galloping with horses, it would take a very strong hand to pull him back in, and Lucky was training nonstop to build up arm muscle, hoping that someday she could teach Randy that he wouldn't be able to get away with that stuff.

That day was yet to come ...

Lucky pulled herself back to the present, and did a few simple exercises on Randy. Walks, trots, and canters in the extended, collected, and free forms. Circles, rein backs, and figure eights. After a few minutes, Lucky decided to trot Randy down the center, and do a false salute to some fake judges. With that Randy decided enough was enough, and galloped off towards the cross country course, leaving Lucky hugging his neck, trying to re grab the reins, and get her feet back into the stirrups. Although the sudden bolts would take time to correct, and they got annoying, they were improving Lucky's balance greatly, and Lucky had to smile about that, despite the situation.
 
Jade stared at the course. It was a tough one. A series of small fences, a few hedges, and one brick wall.

It was that particular brick wall that gave Jade the scar on her left forearm. That, and her old jumper Lightning.

She concentrated. Turning Sweetie to the jumps. The 1st fences went easilly, they soared over beautifully.

Sweetie stumbled on the highest hedge, but regained her lope as Jade urged her to the wall. Sweat beaded on the both of them as the wall drew closer.

Suddenly, everything came to a halt. Jade flew over the fence sure enough, but without Sweetie. The horse had stopped dead.

Jade pounded the ground angrilly. Sweetie was still afraid of the wall....
 
Sophie was content with her ride until a rabbit crossed the path so fast that it spooked Duchess, causing her to gallop off the path and get lost. Sophie stopped Duchess, then sat quietly, wondering what to do.
 
saphira moonstream trotted with moonlight over to the girl. she seemed to be lost. saphira studied her carefully, knowing that some people couldnt be trusted...

"are you lost?" she asked the girl. moonlight shifted uneasily underneath her. saphira caled the mare down. "because we are too..."
 
Sophie studied the girl while Duchess studied the horse. "Yeah, we're lost," Sophie said. "A rabbit spooked my friend Duchess into running off the path.I am Sophie."
 
After several more unsuccesful tries at the wall, a bleeding Jade went past the dressage arena. She spotted one of the girls she had met earlier and waved.
 
saphira saw movement out of the courner of her eye. "oh... im saphira. saphira moonstream. and this is moonlight." she answered sophie. "c`mone. i think i know where we are." she gently tapped moonlight`s side and started walking torwards another girl she saw.
 
Sophie followed Saphira and Moonlight out of the forest and saw Jade,whom she had met earlier. "Hello again!" said Sophie while Duchess reared onto her hind legs and went down again for no apparent reason.
 
Jade swiftly pulled a carrot out of her bag and offered it to the frightened horse. She crooned and whispered softly, to help calm it down.

Not wanting to be left out, Sweetie nuzzled Jade's bleeding arm. Nat giggled as she broke the carrot in half and wiped the blood off Sweetie's nose.

Jade turned back to the frightened horse, still holding out the carrot.
 
Lucky finally found the reins and saddle stirrups. She could only imange how this jumping session was going to go. After all, Randy wasn?t exactly the most reliable, unlike Billlie, who Lucky had had to give away earlier that month to a girl who needed a taller horse than the small pony she owned. Also, the saddle she was in wasn?t meant for jumping, but for general English riding. But, nothing could convince Randy that he wasn?t going to jump the course that lay a little less than 200 feet away.

Lucky decided to go for it. After all, it wasn?t impossible, just harder to get into the proper position for her. And, Randy needed that jumping to get ready for any competition. She managed to slow the chestnut horse down to a canter, and they approached the first jump, but didn?t have the best take off, and Randy really had to stretch out to get over a simple bush jump. Not the way Lucky would have liked to start the course, but she remembered how the first jump she had taken on him had gone.

It was the same jump they had just flew over, but it had gone ever worse. Randy had galloped towards it, but had pulled a sliding stop right before the jump, throwing Lucky over his neck, and into the jump. Lucky hadn?t broke any bones, but she was sore for the next week, and had to hire someone to ride for her.

Seeing as they had come from that, she considered it was pretty good they were jumping almost everything set up for them now.

They finished the course a little while later, and Lucky counted the things that could have gone better. Randy had refused two jumps, and one of them had resulted in a fall from Lucky. The water jump spooked him, and Randy jumped over it crooked. They had had a couple crooked take offs, and one landing had resulted in Randy almost falling. Looking back, Lucky realized that cross country really was more dangerous than she usually thought it to be.

With that done, they raced off to where a group of girls were, a little less than a mile away.

?Hi,? Lucky said.
 
"Hi!" Jade said. She was still trying to calm the scared horse down, so she didn't turn to see who was speaking.
 
"Hi," said Sophie. Duchess seemed to have stepped on something sharp and kicked with her hind legs angrily,making Sophie fall off. Weakly managing to stand up,she checked Duchess's hind hooves and found a rock wedged in one of them. Cautiously,she tried to pull it out,but she stopped when she realized this wasn't helping. "Oh no," Sophie muttered to herself. "Duchess, please hang on."
 
A cool brezze swept the horses manes and tails and made the blades of grass sway gently. Giggles smiled at the sight of her brand new horse, Blanco. He was a light gray and had a snow white mane and tail. He had a furry, velvety muzzle and soft brown eyes. He blinked and turned his head to Giggles.

"Hey boy," Giggles called to the horse. Blanco nickered in greeting.

"Yes, hello to you too!" Giggles walked over to him and gave him a friendly pat. Blanco nuzzled her shoulder happily.

"I love you too big boy," Giggles giggled. Blanco twitched his ears and lifted his head up. He trotted over to the edge of the fence and stood in silence.

"You worried about something?" Giggles asked concered about her new horse.

"Giggles, you still admiring that horse?" Lollypop, Giggles' best friend asked as she cantered her new horse, Rose Petal over to her.

"Yeah, I guess I'm hooked to him and he's hooked to me," Giggles replied putting her chin in her hand and putting her elbow on the railing.

"Well, then take him for a ride to show him appreciation," Lollypop suggested.

"Well let me get his tack and tacking him up will take about ten minutes, if you help me," Giggles voice trailed off.

"No, I can't help you now, I'm already on Rose Petal and you have to get Blanco used to you tacking him up, he's a bit frisky with me but he's perfect with you, he just likes to play games with you, he thinks they're funny," Lollypop explained.

"Ok, I understand, I know what you mean now," Giggles bent her head and walked to the tack room dragging her feet. She wasn't sad, she was just tired. She didn't have times for games and if she did she would have played them with Blanco hours ago, she didn't even have the energy to play even Hide-N-Seek.

"Hurry up, you're wasting time by walking so lazily. I've seen your grandma walk faster than you when she was half asleep!"

"Ok, ok, ok, I'll go!" Giggles said annoyed. She used the last bit of her energy to run to the barn but Blanco broke off in a gallop and wasn't prepared to cooreparate.
 
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"Lucky," she said when she realized that Jade couldn't turn to see who she was. She would have started some sort of conversation, but Randy started to pull at the reins, wanting to get moving again. She figured that all of this was going to equal one huge mess.
 
Nat gave up on the carrot, as the horse seemed to have calmed itself.

"Well, Lucky. Seems your horse is a bit ansy. Wanna take a quick cool-down ride through the woods?"
 
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