Welcome to Hickstead, home to both Seven Oak Stables, and Blue Acre - two rival stables. Both offer opportunities for their clients to reach the highest level of excellence. Each stable differs from the other, so choose wisely and never forget, loyalty is everything... Meanwhile as the stables battle it out, there's trouble brewing at the university. Be careful, if you don't pick a side you may get caught in the cross-fire...
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John managed to grab himself one last cup of coffee before his lesson with Ivan Park. He knew he could probably bring it with him, Ivan wouldn't have minded, but this lesson was special today. His personal assistant had been progressing in his lessons, truth be told, one would have never thought that he had been out of the saddle for a while. Ivan's skills had surpassed his current mount, and John decided to try something new - the man had asked one of the stable hands to pull out Ziggy for his student to try out. John knew it was a gamble, but he had full confidence in Ivan to be able to handle the thoroughbred. With the coffee downed, he grabbed his aviators and took the short walk to the outdoor arena, where the young man and unique thoroughbred stood.
"Ivan!" John called out now, opening up the gate and stepping in before closing it, "I hope you don't mind, but I decided to see how you would do with Ziggy today instead of Odin." He put his sunglasses on and walked to the center of the arena, "Ready for your warm up?"
Dice roll
Odd number - lesson goes poorly Even number - lesson goes well
Ivan was quite happy to have the ability to get himself on John’s schedule. While he often didn’t take as many lessons as the other students and staff – Ivan did try his best to get on there. Even as the PA – he wanted to make sure others went first. The paying ones at least, especially Harlow. He had found the perfect line to keep the young woman at ease.
He showed up dressed and ready for his lesson. “Hey, John! Yes, that sounds good to me.” The idea of a new horse did make him nervous as Odin had gotten desensitized to Ivan’s lack of flesh on his lower limbs. But if he managed a softer touch, it should be fine, right?
Ivan approached the mounting block and mounted Ziggy who seemed to already feel a bit off. But Ivan wasn’t a quitter. Unless things got bad.
John could tell by the look on Ivan's face that the change of horse through him for a look. The man understood, Ziggy was a different type of horse compared to Odin, and they had put some work into Odin to help him know what Ivan needed from him and vice versa, "That's the spirit. No matter what, we will make sure the lessons ends on a good note." Hopefully, the full lesson will be good to Ivan and Ziggy today though.
He walked over now to the stablehand, noting that he would take Ziggy off of their hands as Ivan approached the mounting block, "Well take a slow introduction between you two in the saddle. If anything feels off to you at the walk or the trot, just let me know. I don't want to make you uncomfortable. Ziggy's a good horse though. Your confidence should mellow him out as well." Blue eyes watched the mount up and John let go of the reins now, allowing Ivan to collect them, "How are you feeling? Up for walking around the arena up against the wall?"
Dice roll
Odd number - lesson goes poorly Even number - lesson goes well
The lesson was a complete bust. It wasn’t Ziggy’s or Ivan’s fault. Ziggy unfortunately wasn’t ready for a rider like Ivan – and Ivan didn’t blame the horse. They were able to get a walk, but that was it – even with the urging of John. Alas, the horse felt discomfort and there wasn’t anything Ivan could do about it. Ivan still did his due diligence of prepping Ziggy for his stall, even if the lesson was pretty much Ivan exercising him briefly around the ring.
