Too confident

THEY CAME 1ST!!

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Too confident

Virginia and Ryan were standing by the fence of the main outdoor arena of MSS. After the salute, Amy let Amaranta make a circle in a calm and steady gallop. The mare was fully focused on her rider. They galloped to the first obstacle and reached the other side with a nice, clean jump. Amy let the mare turn directly and with a slightly higher speed, they went to the next jump. "Hmm," Virginia watched the combination. After the thirth jump, Amy and Amaranta galloped even faster and their turns were getting sharper. "They are doing well, aren't they?" Sean said. "U-hu.." Virginia gave as an answer. "She shouldn't go faster than that." But after the 4th jump, Amy gave more leg pressure and Ama was listening perfectly. With a sharp turn they went to the 5th jump. "No, no, she's too confident of herself and Ama.." Virginia's voice sounded a bit irritated. "Why? It looks fine to me, I think that-" Amaranta slowed down, they turned too sharp and now the distance between them and the jump was too short. Virginia was convinced the mare would stop, but Amy encouraged the mare and at the last moment, they came off the ground. "Nevermind." Sean said. Also he, as a dressage rider, saw that Amy wasn't riding in a nice rythm. "I told her so, so many times! She may go fast, that's even what she should do on shows, but in a rythm! Not just faster, faster and faster." Sean nodded. Virginia followed Amy and Ama closely with her eyes. "Come on Amy, learn from your faults.." But the girl kept riding faster. The next jump, the distance again wasn't correct and Amaranta had to make a weird jump, and now Amy realized she should slow down a bit. "Good, good! Now keep that speed, come into that rythm.." Sean smiled about how Virginia was talking without anyone listening to her.

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Info

Horse :: Dane's Amaranta
Gender :: Mare
Breed :: Danish Warmblood

Rider :: Amy Hoffman

Reference :: Skeleton traced - [link]

Show :: Snowdrift Jumping Festival
Class :: L6 jumping
Host :: *Sky-of-Silver

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Comments

FINALLY! I finished something!

Well, I'm quite happy with this one. I often don't like to shade Ama, because of her colors, but it didn't came out that bad and now I've a trick for the light body colors. ^^ And I've also to thank ~Dark1lady for her tip: I used now light pink, dark purple and a dark yellow-greenish color for Amy's face shading and it looks better then the previous shading