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Personal Narrative: The Trailer

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The trailer door fell in front of me and made a thud as it hit the grass, suddenly the dark trailer was lit and my horse was illuminated, as he began calling out. I undid the “butt bar” and walked into the trailer. When I got to my horse, I took the coarse leadrope into my hands and untied it from the old rusted eyehook wedged into the board in the corner. Each step backwards off the trailer brought us one step closer, quit possibly into the beginning of the rest of our show lives together. I looked at Bailey, he threw his head up like a sports team throws up their fists at victory, and I gave him a solid nod. In the walk trot and the walk, trot, canter pleasure classes we were flawless. Two seperate bodies, separate species working …show more content…

I edged Bailey into the ring for our courtesy circle. We picked up a quick canter and flew over the first fence, a light blue cross rail about two feet high, with a two foot long glimmering water pool after. I pulled my left rein back to my hip and pushed with my right leg as we landed to make the sharp left to the next jump. It was a 2 foot high standard that I after realized was yellow not red like I had thought in the spur of the moment. After clearing that, we cantered down the long side, approaching an oxer. The verticals were a solid, dim gray, two and a half feet high and left room for only two canter strides in between them. Bailey didn't even twitch, as his ears pricked forward and we popped over the oxers one after another. I gave a silent cheer and patted him on the neck. The final jump was the three foot jump. It had flower boxes on either side which were nearly decorated with a variety of colored tulips. It was painted black and white, in a checkered pattern to signify a finish line. I gave Bailey his head and he quickened his pace, and I wondered to myself if this was the rush jockeys got to feel. I closed my eyes as Bailey took off, sending us over the fence. For a brief moment everything was still and I was flying. I remember feeling him hit the ground and people around us cheer and clap. We had cleared every fence, hadn't even touched a pole...we had won! The judge leaned into the microphone and declared "A

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