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Zoe and Highlights
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Date Posted: 17:33:30 01/05/03 Sun
The lissom blonde entered upon the short back of the obstinate copper mare, who currently wore an extremely sour expression at the vast indignities of being ridden.
Zoe's hands were high and light as she gently asked for a trot with her soft legs. She knew Highlights was a jumpy thing, and that she was more than likely to bolt if given the opportunity.
The two rounded the arena at a snappy trot before the girl pressed her outside calf to Highlights' round barrel. The mare's haunch was tiny and relatively less muscular than her front end, and it was easy for Zoe get her hind legs beneath her.
Highlights, having been blessed with extensive training early on, easily picked up the correct lead and attempted to take the bit from Zoe's forgiving hands with her teeth. She threw her tiny head arrogantly and accelerated out of pure malice for her rider.
Having anticipated something of the sort -- Highlights tended to operate in patterns -- Zoe sat back in her well-oiled saddle and tugged sharply on the pony's mouth before loosening her hold. Highlights responded inherantly well to the whole method of give-and-release, and this particular time was no exception. The pony shortened her stride and rounded her comparatively flat back, which was simply something she did after being glued to an acceptable pace. She even rewarded Zoe's efforts with discernable flexing in the deep corners of the arena although her tiny ears remained at an contrary set.
Spontaneously, Zoe pointed her dainty mount down the approach of one of the lower singles she had put up for Ella the other day. Highlights lifted her eyes and pricked her ears and, as Zoe grabbed a clutch of platinum mane, took it effortlessly. Her legs snapped athletically beneath her airborne body before gravity kicked in and the arc was completed with a light thud. She was, in all honesty, a very cute jumper.
Zoe turned Highlights sharply through an abrupt rollback turn with heavy inside leg and the two rose easily over a wooden oxer.
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