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Old Kentucky Love
Chapter 1: We're Heading Out
The sun was shining brightly on the ranch of Horseland Stables. Everyone was out riding their horses hunt seat, jumping gracefully over each post. One rider was in the arena aside to that one handling his horse in saddle seat style.
That was Josh Kroger. Young man of 17 years, riding for over seven years at Horseland. His horse is a saddle bred mare named Dotty. She had a coat of brown fur with hints of red, a matching mane and tail with white streaks in them. She has white socks on both of her front feet. Her bridle bore a black circle, which Josh referred to as "The Black Pearl."
Josh was a different rider compared to the others there at Horseland. They were known for hunt seat jumping, but he was an exception. He was the only one to do standard trots, canters, slow gates(fast trot) and racks(even faster than the slow gate). He was more to showing his horse more than making her jump.
His lesson had just finished up and he was done for the day. He took Dotty back to the barn, washed her off, and gave her a treat for doing a good job today. One by one the others started to come inside and repeat what he had just done.
Josh was in Dotty's stall, brushing her off and pettin' her. Sarah and Molly started to bring their horses, Scarlett and Calypso, up the walk and into their stalls.
Josh finished brushing Dotty and threw his brush in his tack box and put it away in the tack room. He and Bailey walked back to their stalls and chatted a while with the girls.
Bailey's cousin, Will, came running to where the others were. The others turned around and saw him panting and holding what seemed to be a letter in his hand.
"Hey cus. Whatcha' got there?" Bailey asked.
"Here. Take a look. It's from Josh's and Sarah's hometown. It must be serious, cause it's got the governor's seal on it," he answered in reply.
Bailey quickly scanned over it. The others started to crowd around him to what the fuss was about. Bailey yelled out a shout of cheer.
"YOW! Where's the fire?" Josh said.
"Don't you see? This is an invitation. The Kentucky Horse Park is having their first hunt and saddle seat competition. We have been personally invited from the governor himself," he said in reply.
"Wow," Molly said," I guess we did get some attention, didn't we?"
"Si, chica," Alma said," we got some big attention.
"I can't believe that we're going back home for a while," Sarah said.
"Yeah. I practically lived at the horse park when I was little. I showed there just about every show I could go to. Heck even Sarah did, too," Josh said. Sarah blushed a little.
Kentucky was the home state of Josh and Sarah. The two lived there when they were little. When they moved to Tennessee(sue for not knowing right location), they parted when she gained recognition. However, when she came back, it was like old times. But the two had grown and were now 16 and 17. The two started grow closer when they came to Horseland, eventually having a crush on each other, but both never admitted to the other, yet.
"Sounds like we're going to the home of the horses," Chloe said.
"Capital of the horses is more like it. That state starts out the races every year; even Queen Elizabeth II went to one of them recently," her twin Zoey added.
"Figures you two would be the only ones to be interested in horse racing because royalty went," Sarah said shaking her head.
"What? Wouldn't you?"
"Nope," Josh said cutting in.
"It was our hometown, and that's the reason we're excited to go back," Sarah said.
Shep, Teeny, Angora, and the horses were all listening in on this as it happened. Teeny seemed very excited as usual.
"Oh, boy. It looks like we're going on a trip," she said excitedly.
"Yes, indeed. It seems that way, now doesn't it?" he said.
"Oh, boy. I can't I'm going to my home," Dotty said excitedly.
"Yes, Kentucky sounds like a fine place for riding horses," Aztec said.
"Sure does," Calypso whinnied in agreement," I'm just excited thinking about it."
"I just can't wait. I hope there's a lot of trails to ride on for trail rides," Pepper said.
"Well. When does it say the trip?" Sarah asked.
"Let's see," Will said scanning the letter. "It seems the competition is in two weeks."
"That's not too far away," Alma said.
"Then we better practice every bit that we can without running down our horses. Everyone meet at 11:00 and practice everything that we covered. Got it?" Will said.
They all nodded in agreement." All right then. Meet you all here tomorrow."