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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Logan was looking forward to his lesson today. He hadn't taught anyone in a short while, with people busy competing, they were taking a break from lessons to save money for entries - and then once it was going poorly, they were suddenly booking back in. It didn't always go poorly, if anything, Logan thought the standard was high from what he'd seen, but he knew that people booked more lessons when it didn't go to plan, than when it did.
He'd set up the jumps indoors, escaping the torrential April downpoor outside. It had been a dreadful month for weather and he hoped to hell that it improved in May so they could get back outside permanently and enjoy the trails again. Logan had kept it from being too complicated today, but he also wanted to present some sort of challenge, and so he'd set up a treble across the diagonal of the school, with two upright on the other diagonal that were a related distance to the treble fences. It sounded confusing, but essentially it meant that on one diagonal, you jumped the treble - three uprights with a stride in between - and the other option was to jump a double on a dogleg, using a jump out of the treble. Hopefully, Rory enjoyed the brain tease of it.
Rory really wanted to get her act together - her lessons hadn't gone as planned lately. It was almost as if she was in some sort of rut. She kept signing herself up for them, wanting so badly to have a good lesson.
She had chosen Joy for this lesson - wanting the horse who caused a little less chaos in the ring to have her turn. Rory got her mare ready, preparing to ride inside due to the rainy weather. Rory quickly got Joy ready, realizing she was running a bit behind. She led the bay mare into the indoor, smiling at Logan as she entered.
"Sorry I'm late, one of the foals decided to be a bit of a menace. How have you been? Busy with lessons?" Rory fixed her tack before getting in the saddle, walking the mare forward as she started getting the two of them warmed up.