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Beach Hopping

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I´m still on vacation, but I had a bit of time to finish this baby. I´ve started this entry to use it for a different competition, but then I got sick right in the middle of it and was unable to complete it before the deadline. So I´m happy to have found this one to use it in. :3

My entry for The EH Studbook Summer Show . Karou´s first legit showjumping competition – after some training and a few unsuccessful (or less successful) competition experiences.

To be honest – I really hope that Pebble Beach is only the name of that beach…and not composed of actual pebbles. I kind of recalled that after I was finished with drawing…although – technically speaking: sand is nothing else than a huge bunch of microscopic pebbles, right? Right?? :D


 


 

Karou loved the beach. She loved water in general; so much that, if she was to jump over an obstacle including water, it was more difficult to get her to jump it, than to get her to fail it, because she  actually would have loved to roll around in the artificial body of water. Still, with a bit of patience (and a lot of swearing), Aydan had managed to get her to stay on track while jumping near water – most of the time, that is.

Pebble Beach was amazing that time of the year. It was very hot, the typical summer´s day, but the fresh gusts of air coming from the water provided everyone with the occasional cooling they needed. The young mare was excited, almost a bit too excited, and Aydan had a hard time calming her down just enough so that she wasn´t going to wreck the parcours before even jumping one single obstacle. She could smell and hear the Kelpies and the other horses at the estate, and he suspected that it was the amalgamation of all of these impressions and sensations made her nervous, though he was not too worried that it would affect her too negatively. She was still young, and was still pretty unexperienced when it came to showjumping – to be fair Aydan wasn´t even expecting to get placed with her. But they needed the experience, and – perhaps the most essential – it was fun.

(Aydan did not realise that the true reason for her nervousness was that she simply could not wait to get the saddle and the bridle off after the competition, and to roll around in the water. Stupid human, he was just not intelligent enough to see the essential. Tssk.)

Perhaps that was one of the reasons why she was so fast – she literally flew through the whole thing. Which did result in her knocking over two of the obstacles, but all in all Aydan was very satisfied, and very happy with how she competed.

As for Karou – she didn´t even give him time to properly groom her. Once he had taken off the saddle, the bridle, and all of the other equipment, she darted off in direction of the shore, and jumped into the water, happy as the proverbial clam.

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UnbornLegacyArt's avatar
This is amazing! Everything flows so well together!