STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER, END THE PAIN!!!!!

Hello, everybody! It’s been a while since I have post, hasn’t it?

Good news:

I am going to Sugarloaf Horse Center THIS Sunday!!!! Hurray!

Bad News:

School holidays are nearly up-that means I’ll only be allowed to go to the stables once a month :(…until next holidays start, of course :). Do you know what horse slaughter is?????? It’s murdering horses, of course!!! It’s very sad. There are some countries all around the world who sell and eat our beautiful creatures! If you think the horse’s meat is yum, you must be sick! Slaughtering happens to all animals-cats, dogs, wild animals, and even OUR DOMESTIC PETS also get slaughtered!!!!!

I don’t think there are Slaughter Houses in Australia, but I’m SURE there is in Europe-at the butcher shop!   If you cannot see the words clearly on this picture, I’ll type it out here so you can see…

I want to be free…

but when slaughter stars…

I begin to worry…

what will the cruel people do to my foal?

stop horse slaughter now

end the pain!!!!

wishes, a going-to-be-killed mare

See what I mean? Horses are beautiful creatures…they are loving, just like the normal, caring human nature. But what a horse mainly dislikes is being eaten and slaughtered! I don’t see why they slaughter horses, especially since the people already slaughter the poor pigs (for pork), the poor cows (for beef) and the poor chickens, turkey…etc (Oh, and COW’S TOUNGE! Yuck! Why do people have to be SO revolting?) I rest my case, but this is ridiculous. Who eats horse meat, anyway? They all have a desire for chicken! And there are horse auctions or markets, and guess what they put up? Something called: BUY OR THE HORSES DIE!!!!! That is just SO completely SAD!! And the silly people price the horse, something higher than a normal horse sale, like, $900, 000 and people just buy the horse because of that silly phrase, “BUY OR THE HORSES DIE!!!!” I think people are thinking minds so silly these days!   You run free, you STAY free. People aren’t getting the humane reason here! Horses are wonderful creatures…They are lovable…they are the best creatures in the WORLD! Well, maybe, for some people’s opinion.

Well, I take this phrase aback-If things happen terribly…who’s to blame? No one so just live the dream… I totally take it aback now! Some people just think animals are JUST ANIMALS, Which isn’t the whole truth. Animals AREN’T JUST ANIMALS, they are special…in fact, if I had been more wrong, I’d rather be an animal than a human! (Ha-ha…well, maybe) Animals try their best too, you know! We AREN’T the MOST HARD-WORKING creatures that, oh, thank God ever made! Animals try their best, as well! Horses- for instance, is hard-working! They train hard to race in the Melbourne Cups! They train hard to win competitions, the Olympics, the Nationals!   In fact, they train so hard that it makes us humans NOTHING, when THEY train hard. When we do training/hard-work etc, we don’t feel LOT’S of pain, do we?? Well, we do…like when you are doing Aerobics or Yoga etc etc, but horses, let’s just say a jockey whips a horse ten times as hard to keep the horse going…some horses just lose it, and they rear and buck and all that but some horses just get MOVING!! It’s not fair!      Why does the POOR HORSES get SLAUGHTERED and WE DON’T??? I- don’t-think-it-is-fair-Horses do have feelings, exactly like us! Don’t be a killer and help the selfish, useless, dumb-brained horse slaughterers !!!!! :( If you ENJOY horse slaughtering, you are SO completely, SAD and SICK!!!! Look at them pictures, and THINK about it! STOP WORSHIPPING the careless slaughterers! SAVE THE LIVES OF BILLIONS OF HORSES!!!! But the problem is…HOW??? For one thing, I can complain serenely to the presidents of Europe about the stupid slaughtering. But, either way, it STILL won’t be a option. Let’s just say, your best friend, A HORSE YOU LOVE TO RIDE! Suddenly some stupid Slaughter House takes it away and YOU don’t do ANYTHING ABOUT IT- Your best friend- G-O-N-E! So, please, I wish to complain. But I WILL when I’m an adult. For now, I will pray everyday about it- when I see Slaughter Houses I shall complain to them…show them some pics I will print out…and if THAT won’t work, oh well! They’ll have to learn the HARD way. Which is to be doomed with the HORSE SPIRITS!!! (Spooky!!!!!) Anyway, if YOU support or work for the SLAUGHTER HOUSES, please quit your ridiculous, dumb-brained job! The money-almost NOTHING! The horses-a hundred tones!!!! The money YOU earn from slaughtering horses is just like garbage! Horses are worth millions of dollars when you buy them-and do YOU know why??? Cos’ they are YOUR BEST FRIEND! And they are getting SLAUGHTERED!   And, for a start, I wish all the Slaughter Houses will be SHUT DOWN FOREVER AND EVER!!!! It’s REALLY not fair! Even if you hate horses (I serenely say if you hate horses, you are really not into life’s choices!) you should be SURPPORTIVE! STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER, END THE PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I rest my case (ditto), but honestly, this is getting super-ridiculous. NO ONE can do anything about it. But for a change, it’s very, very pathetic. God didn’t make horses for us to KILL and EAT and DIGEST! He made them for us to enjoy horses!!!!!!!!!!!!! To ride them! To LOVE them! But honestly, I’m not very spiritually aware, but maybe God DID made them for us to eat…shiver…if he did I’ll start worshipping Buddha. Or Hinduism. And THANK GOD that the United Stats is close to BANNING HORSE SLAUGHTER! Hurray! It’s because they have SLAUGHTERED OVER 30,000 HORSES!!! And, I know the US and Australia people, they DON’T eat horses, they slaughter them and send them to Europe…STOP IT!!! Please, if you are working at the Slaughter House, whatever country you are in and you are KILLING them, and sending them to Asia and Europe. So, please, QUIT YOUR RIDICILOUS JOB!!!

   Horses ain’t deserve all THIS pain!!! So, please…

STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER,

END THE PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

How to Make Miniature Hobby Horse (One that YOU couldn’t ride-but a doll or something can :)

Hello, people! Nice night, isn’t it? If you can’t see the words clearly, don’t worry! I’ll show it on the side bars! :D. Anyway, do YOU want to know how to make a miniature hobby horse? But I must warn you, this hobby horse is going to be awfully small. I’ll show you a Miniature Hobby Horse I made a couple of days ago…brb…..

OK. So let’s start off with the first step:

YOU WILL NEED:

• A small horse doll. (Similar to shown above-ANY color, patterns etc)
• A piece of glasses cloth (DON’T use a glasses cloth if you need it often!!) or a piece of cloth (ANY color!)
• Scissors
• Sticky Tape
• Colored crayons or pencils
• Paper

OK, have you got all that? OK, so, here are the methods or steps:

Step 1:

Get the piece of cloth and place it on the horse’s back like a saddle pad. XD

The blue cloth is the saddle pad. Place it on the horse’s back. Then, use sticky tape to stick the ends to stay still.

Step 2:

The tack- Get the piece of paper and colored crayons or pencils etc. If you want your tack to be just plain white, you don’t need the colored crayons or pencils. Or if you have brown/gray/whatever color you want colored paper, you also don’t need the colored pencils or crayons. OK, so, we will start off with the bridle and bit-get the scissors. The bridle and bit is like shown on this photo. OK, before we start, IF you are using plain paper, and want it colored, color it before you start cutting.

Cut the paper into a really thin strip but not too thin. Then, measure it around the horses nose part and get sticky tape and secure it-make sure it’s not loose! You are not riding the horse, the doll is and we are pretty sure when the doll falls off, it won’t get injured.

Step 3:

The saddle is also important. Sketch a saddle-type shape on a piece of paper and color it whatever color you want it to be (brown, is the best, I guess) Then, cut it out with the scissors. After that, stick it with sticky tape on the saddle pad.

Step 4:

Stirrups

Fold another piece of paper in half. Then, on one side (one WHOLE side-back and front of a SINGLE half) sketch a piece of stirrups then color it in-if you don’t know what stirrups look like-here it is!  But also draw the WHOLE line of stirrups. Once you are done, get the scissors ready and cut the outline of the stirrup of the paper half so you will end up with two stirrups! Next, attach the stirrups from the saddle-each stirrup dangling from each side!

Step Five

The girth is one of the most important aspects on a horse~ If you don’t get the girth tightened enough, you might lose your balance and fall off! The girth is a kind of tack tied around the horses belly. Some horses puff out when the girth is tightened! So, all you do for this small hobby horse is, get a piece of paper and scissors. Cut a small strip and color it-or do it the other way around. Then, stick it around the horses belly.

Step Six

Your DONE!!!!!!!!!! Hurray! You are done making your Miniature Hobby Horse! To make it more fabulous and fancy, put a doll or Littlest Pet Shop or something like that, on the horse like the doll’s riding it! Have fun with your hobby horse! ;D XD    

Happy reading AND riding!!! xo, Kat

How to Ride a Horse

Cantering, trotting, walking and galloping…I got it ALL here for first-time riders.

Walking

Walking is one of the slowest of all horse movements. (Except for standing, thank God :) ) To make a horse or pony or donkey or unicorn or zebra or whatever horse species you are riding, just squeeze deeply (But not too deeply) in the saddle, and it’ll make the horse walk-make sure your reins are even Steven!!!!!

Trotting

Trotting is faster than a walk, but slower than a canter. Just kick your legs slightly in the stirrups-but not too hard or you will confuse the horse into cantering or trotting

Cantering

Some people might not know what cantering means-it is a three-beat pace from a horse. It is faster than a trot or walk, but slower than a gallop. Just kick deeply into the stirrups, like doing a trot but do it more with attitude so the horse knows you mean business.

Galloping

Let me just say that if you are a first time rider, they won’t exactly let you gallop because galloping is what horses from the Melbourne Cup do. Again, just kick the horse in the stirrups, yank the reins and your on your way. Ik.

Well, I hope that answers your questions.

REMEMBER if you have ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT RIDING OR HORSES.   please type your question in the comment box (Just click comments and there is a box to type your question/comment.) Thank you.

Seems like there are going to be 2 Posts today. This is the HOW-YOU-DO-IT thing and the next one, I guess is going to be a chapter post or something like that. Bye for now! :) Kat

Using-Your-Brain Weekly Horse Quiz!

The Using-Your-Brain Weekly Horse Quiz is to test your brain and your horse skills.  I only type up the Using-Your-Brain Weekly Horse Quiz every week-which is why it mentions weekly on the title. Which means, there will be one each week. (Every Sunday night)

Rules (Simple ones, don’t fret):

• NO CHEATING! Someone’s watching you! Which basically means NO INTERNET CHECK!!!! I rest my case.
• Don’t fret! If you don’t know a question, skip it-it’s alright or the best choice is to GUESS!! You’ll get 25% right, at least! :)

The reason why there is NO PRIZE is because I bet alot of people will intend to use the internet, anyway. By the way, if you want your answers checked, type them down on the comment box-scroll down then press ‘comment’ on one of my posts-Then, type your answers in!!

And the test…begins…

1. Name three types of race horses:

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2. What is the most common color of a horse?

a) grey

b) strawberry roan

c)bay

3. What do you call a horse with strange strip markings?

a)zebra

b) tiger horse

c) striped-unicorn

4. What do we call a special type of trousers that riders where when competing? (usually colored cream when competing)

a) jodhpurs

b) jeans

c) Just ordinary trousers

5)What special kind of tack which wraps around the horse’s belly?

a) reins

b) bridle path

c) girth

6) What is the correct term of ‘white’ horses?

a) dapple grey horses

b) cherry chestnut

c) grey

7) How do you make a horse canter?

a) Give them a big kick

b) Do nothing-the horses can read minds

c) whip the horse with crop or whip

8 (LAST QUESTION!)( Which horse’s color is like buttercup?

a) chestnut

b)palomino

c) strawberry roan

FINISHED! CONGRAGULATIONS! YOU HAVE FINISHED THE USE-YOUR-BRAIN WEEKLY HORSE QUIZ! Now, all you have to do to get your answers marked is:

Scroll down on any of the posts-put this post in a new window (So you can type down the answers probably and easier) press ‘comments’ and write a new comment. Then, type your answers down then send it. I will get to you soon!! If you answer all the questions correctly, WELL DONE! (Remember, I have to MARK it FIRST-You don’t have to go INTERNET CHECKING!) Here are a few cool horsey pictures. At the end of each weekly quiz, I put on pictures from 'Glitter Fly’ some pictures maybe you’ve already seen on the side! (Hint hint!)   

 

Horsey Break! :)

Hello, everybody-before we start anymore made-up horsey stories, I’m going to tell you some advice on riding. But it’s just simple tips at first!

• Mounting and Dismounting:

Mounting is what horsey people call ‘getting on a horse’ and dismounting is what horsey people call ‘getting off a horse’. You can see the difference of the words and if you can’t, read the phrase at least fifty times before you get it.  Remember, if this is your first time riding a horse, be sure you have another pro person to instruct you or guide you. Mounting:

There is something called a ‘stirrup’ at the side of the horse and at the bottom of the saddle*.  Now, put your foot in the stirrup, put one hand on the saddle and one hand on the mane like shown above. Now, 1…2…3… Push up! Once you are comfortable in the saddle*, you shall have to put your other foot in the other stirrup-no embarrassments! Just bend down to the stirrup and place your feet.

*Saddle- A saddle is a type of tack that they put on the horses back-so you won’t get saddlesore!    All saddles have different types-like this saddle is an Arabian horses saddle- and for the reins, there are also different types of reins-easy going and beginner horses and ponies have the leather-ropey kind of rein that have the yellow marks on it. Some advanced horses have only leather strap reins-no yellow mark.

Whew! Was that any hard at all????? Let’s just see how you move on a real horse! :)

Anyway, let’s just see the The Most Horsey Top Bookrooms For 2011:

1. Pony Club Secrets by Stacy Greg

note: I ADORE Pony Club Secrets by Stacy Greg-she’s one of my fave authors.

2. Merryfield Hall Riding Stables by Jeanne Crebbin'

I do enjoy the books by Jeanne :)

Well, cheerios!

Happy riding and reading,

Kat

Chocolate and the Twilight Jumps

By Kat Christine Wang

Chapter 1

“There’s the one meter fences over that log, then, we’ll do some warming up dressage rounds and we’ll get into some frequent teams-any questions?” Rachael, Willow Hall Stables Pony Club instructor was saying. Katy Richards, a snobby, unheartful, rich and nasty girl put her hand up. “Why couldn’t there be more advanced riders that have more posh intension and more good-looking horses be in this stable?” she asked, bouncy on her beautiful black Thoroughbred, Black Jack gracefully. Ellie rolled her eyes-OK, so Black Jack was probably the best-looking horse in pony club but so what? The black thoroughbred had a tiny dot on its forehead and it always moved gracefully in dressage, strongly in showjumping and swiftly in racing, as though Black Jack is a race horse, after all-which had gotten Ellie, she had to admit, jealous. Rachael frowned and whacked her whip against her lilac jodhpurs as if she meant business but didn’t answer Katy’s rude question. Ellie kept her horse moving-Chocolate. Chocolate was a nice bay horse, but you could say bay but not exactly-more darker than bays~ Chocolate Mousse was Chocolate’s show name as Ellie noted proudly. She had been begging her parents for a horse for ages until they finally gave up and gave her Chocolate-fifteen point two hands dark bay-colored Anglo-Arab for Ellie’s birthday last year. “Keep Chocolate moving towards the first fence-don’t let him take the trot to a walk!” Rachael advised. Ellie yanked on the reins more firmly then loosened them. The 3.2 feet tall fence was approaching. The Anglo-Arab snorted. And jumped.

“That was quite a practice,” said Rachael as they all dismounted to tie up their ponies for a picnic break. Ellie tied Chocolate to a single tree trunk and flipped her dark hair back and nodded. “I guess Chocolate knocked over a fence or two but I think he was spooked out,” admitted Ellie. “Weren’t you, boy?” she stroked the dark bay softly. “You and Chocolate need to work on a few things in showjumping-your dressage is really improving…and we’re lucky its summer holidays, because we’ll need lots of practice these days,” said Rachael. Ellie frowned slightly. “Why?” she asked. “I’ll tell you when I tell everyone together.” Fumed Rachael and walked away, carrying the riding whip, swaying it from side to side. Lots of practice…thought Ellie. She knew that to be a good horsewoman was to practice but she wasn’t so sure that was what Rachael meant… “Ellie!” Ellie’s best friend, Sarah Diwinds was waving frantically at a picnic table towards the pasture. Sarah and Ellie went to the same school-Willow Halls High, they went to the same pony club and they went to the same Music Academy’s. Their mothers said that the two were very alike, which was pretty awkward. Ellie had long, brown hair and slightly olive tanned skin like her mum and Sarah had short blond hair cut in a bob and pale face and slightly bits of freckles along her nose. “How’s Lil Cutie?” Ellie asked as they placed down their bagged lunchboxes, drinks and pockets of money to buy food or drinks from the kiosk on the picnic table. Lil Cutie was Sarah’s sixteen hands grey shire horse. Sarah had tied Lil Cutie along Chocolate’s side, so the two horses were face-two face, grazing on the grass. “She’s great, I guess. We still need to improve on dressage…Rachael said that we needed to work on our ‘posture’. Since when did ballet include in riding?” said Sarah, biting down in her sandwich. Ellie opened her mouth to say something but she was interrupted. “Oh, yes, admiring my Black Jack?” a sour voice from behind was sneering about. Ellie and Sarah turned around to see the sour-faced blond and expensive cream jodhpurs. “It’s a shame that you two both need to work on stuff for winning the golden trophy.” Katy smirked, carrying a hot pink cell phone and a light hot pink purse bag, filled with $50 paper monies and lip gloss. Ellie turned on her attention to the blond brat. “Golden Trophy?” she blurted out, almost spluttering her coke all over the table. Sarah also looked interested. “Twenty minutes everyone!” Rachael was calling out the morning break time limit. Katy sighed dramatically and flipped her hot pink cell phone open. “Sometimes, I wonder if Rachael tells important things to the best riders,” Katy sneered. “You know, she told me to tell all of people in Pony Club that there’s going to be a eventing comp in two weeks’ time-it’s called Twilight Eventing which means it’ll happen at six o’ clock in the night and the riders will get selected in either, showjumping or dressage,” said Katy, tapping her manicured fingers on her hot pink cell phone, looking bored and acting quite bored as she explained it to Ellie and Rachael. “You’ll get a letter in your mailbox this afternoon and your parent’s will know it-Rachael said only the best selected riders will be chosen for either one and the best of it is that we’ll be competing in the dark with fairy floodlights on.” Finished Katy looking smart. “Then, whoever wins first place in either showjumping, or dressage will take home a golden trophy-it’s this cool trophy with a gold horse rearing up and underneath, there’s a stand that says your name on it-only the BEST people can take one of them home-it’s not like you’ll get in into either of those choices, will you, Ellie?” smirked Katy and scattered away, to the kiosk. “Wow,” breathed Sarah. “I really hope Lil Cutie and I get in showjumping,” she wished. Ellie glanced over at Chocolate and squinted her eyes over at Katy and Black Jack-she had to train hard. If Rachael was rewarding them for the golden trophy, then Ellie had no choice-in fact, she had no choice at all.

Chapter 2

“But Mum!”

“No Ellison, Music Academy is twice as important-you can’t go every day of the week to train that beast,”

Ellie and her mother were having a slight argument in the kitchen. Mrs. Wringdale, Ellie’s mother had received the letter about the Twilight Competitions in two weeks’ time- and Mrs. Wringdale did not like to hear about Ellie arriving at the stables every day, early to late, training Chocolate and to do that so, Ellie had to admit that it meant more money to pay. And what’s more worse is that Music Academy had an email to the Wringdale’s account…After the argument, it looked like Mrs. Wringdale had won. All Ellie did was slump upstairs, avoiding the violin on her bed. Instead, she opened up her laptop and checked her email, just in case her mother had misread the email from Music Academy from practicing her violin at the studio every day! But…she was wrong…

Dear Mrs and Mr. Wringdale,

Your child is participating in the Music Academy Re-awards exams Grand Finale. She needs to bring her violin in a neat violin case to practice for the MAREGF on these days:

Monday: 9:30am

Tuesday: 9:00am

Wednesday: 10:45am

Thursday: 1:00pm

Friday: 5:00pm

Weekends: You must push your child to practice on weekends, very hard. The MAREGF starts in two weeks’ time, straight on Tuesday, at 10:55pm at night. You must pay this bill ASAP: $500. 80c by the original date. MUST be PAID. Tickets Available, but please book seats. Please be firm and serious with all this,

Firm Regards,

Lara Natalie Ann

Film producer of Music Academy

987018273 Music-Academy@allmusicproductions.com.au/organizer

Willow Halls Saxony Rd 2467

“Not fair!” fumed Ellie after she’d finished reading the email. If this means 24hour practice for two whole weeks for her, it’ll mean for Sarah, too! There was no way of teaching sour and nasty and bratty Katy Denman a lesson or two! She needed to give a word or two to Lara Natalie Ann, the director and producer. And if her mum disagreed, Ellie was doing it on her own!

No, she didn’t need to. They had cancelled the practices because one of the musicians had a serious disease. “I still want all of yous to practice, though!” snapped Lara-Natalie angrily. Ellie smiled to herself and turned to Sarah. “Want to go to the stables?”

Chapter 3

By the time Ellie wheeled her bike to the bike shed at the back of the horse floats, she was never so cheerful-the Music Academy stuff had happened so quick-and so out of the blue. Today, it promised a hot day with blue cleared skies and shining sun. Ellie had bring her pocket money with her, to pay for the extra training, obviously. Ellie caught Sarah’s bike, already parked and chained so Ellie parked her bike right next to Sarah’s. She wiped her hands on her new cream jodhpur’s and walked to the gate, near the pasture, where some horses were grazing on grass. “Good afternoon, Ellie-what brings you here?” asked Hailey, the flamed-headed manager of Willow Hall Stables was in the kiosk, sorting out papers for the Twilight Comp. Ellie slapped $45 on the counter. “I want extra training for the Twilight Comp,” she muttered. Hailey took the money and smiled. “OK. Go get you’re riding helmet off the racks and put your boots on and get Chocolate ready in the arena-Rachael will be waiting for you there with Sarah and Katy.” Said Hailey. Ellie was surprised about Katy’s appearance. “Katy?” she repeated. Hailey nodded. “Yup. Katy’s parents planned to sue us, long story,” said Hailey with a wink. Sounds like Katy, all right, thought Ellie. At least she had her best friend so she wasn’t the only one stuck with stuck-up Katy. Ellie went to get Chocolate untied from the horse floats but she froze as she walked up to his float-he wasn’t there.

“How could’ve I’ve been so thoughtless?” hissed Ellie to Sarah. Rachael sent Sarah to fetch Ellie because she was taking so long. “You’d better think quickly,” said Sarah. “Rachael did sound quite firm there-and since Chocolate’s gone Katy was smirking when I asked why you weren’t here,” explained Sarah. Ellie gawped at her; still looking over and over the horse floats. “Why did you ask?” demanded Ellie quietly, hoping no one will hear. “Well, I didn’t want to be stuck with Katy!” answered Sarah. They searched the paddocks and pasture. And the barn. And a short distance from the trails. Chocolate was nowhere to be seen. “What are we going to do?” whispered Sarah, looking terrified. Before anyone could answer, Rachael was hurrying up to them, calling, “Hey! Girls! Ellie! Sarah! Where’s Chocolate?”

“That’s the problem-we don’t know!” cried Ellie. Rachael frowned and looked around. “I’ll check the horse floats-girls, go to the arena and wait there.” Instructed Rachael.

“No Chocolate Mousse is there?” smirked Katy. “Oh dear.”

“What have you done with him?” snapped Ellie. Katy did the wide-eye innocence and fluttering eyelashes as if she is an real angel. “Me?” she pattered on about.

“Katy, I would like to speak to you.” Rachael was behind, them. And, she was holding Chocolate’s halter! “Chocolate!” cried Ellie cheerfully, springing up to him and hugged him and pushed her head deep in his mane. “Where did you find him?” asked Ellie curiously. “Katy!” Rachael flattered. “I need to see you!” Katy clucked Black Jack on, with a worried expression in her eyes~ an expression some blond, bratty, spoilt girl would never have. Rachel told Katy to dismount off Black Jack and so she did, hanging her head as doing so. “I found Chocolate in your horse truck,” explained Rachael angrily. “Can you explain?” Katy turned red as tomato. “Um…” Sarah grinned, but Ellie didn’t feel happy that Katy was getting told off by Rachael-she was furious! How dare Katy touch her horse into her horse truck? “Right, your parents did threaten to sue-but I’ll have a word with them-you are not competing in the Twilight Comp.” was just like that-Rachael’s final word, which left Katy, into tears.

Chapter 4

The two girls cycled all the way back home. “I guess I do feel a bit sorry for Katy,” admitted Sarah, pedaling in an even pace. “Did you see the way she wept when Rachael told her she was out? It was epic, and she no longer looked smart anymore.” Sarah finished. Both girls steered down the pathway, cycling side-by-side. Ellie shrugged. “Don’t feel sorry for her. Don’t you understand? She was the one that took Chocolate without asking and put it in her own horse truck,” Ellie hampered. “That’s true.” Shrugged Sarah. “Bye. I’m up that way-see you tomorrow for the Twilight Show.” Sarah greeted a goodbye before the two girl’s cycled separate ways.

“Ellie! Ellie! I have some fantastic news!” Ellie’s mother was hyper once Ellie stepped one step through the door. Ellie rolled her eyes. “What? That the Music Academy is back on?” she groaned. Mrs. Wringdale shook her head and went hyper-sonic so much that Ellie had to admit, it was pretty scary. Her mother showed her a letter. It said:

Congratulations!

You’ve made it into the: TWILIGHT COMPETITION

Here’s the pinboard:

Showjumping:

· Adam Arn

· Lily Barlin

· Sophie Costa

· ELLISON WRINGDALE! J (Well Done!!)

Dressage:

· Sarah Dwindle

· Marie Smith

· Jeffrey Chang

· Arden Zhang

Well done! You’ve made it in the SHOWJUMPING for our TWILIGHT COMP!

Kind Regards,

The Willow Hall Stables Team

Ellie almost squealed to death after she had read it-she had made it! To showjumping! And her greatest rival, Katy and Chocolate’s horse greatest rival, Black Jack was not in any because they got eliminated! “Yes!” squealed Ellie. And her best friend, Sarah Dwindle and Lil Cutie had also made it! In dressage! Ellie was really, really happy then. She had MADE it! She did!

Chapter 5

The night of the Twilight Show was really, really, really cool. The arena had been set up-with fairy lights and colorful floodlights everywhere! The seats were also there. And at the end of each ledge of a seat, was a fairy light for the audience to take for free! And there were also jumps-little to high…higher…and higher…and most of the fences, at each end were also a colorful spark fairy light! “Wow,” breathed Ellie as she saddle Chocolate. “Do you think we can take a fairy light, too?” Sarah just shrugged happily. “I think this is amazing, too. “What number are you?” she added. Ellie took her card from her pockets and read, “I’m No. 4…last one…scary…” she grinned. “Hey! I’m no. 1! Wanna swap!” joked Sarah. “Shush!” it was Rachael, who was setting everything up backstage; even though ‘backstage’ were only the trail areas. “OK, OK, do we have everyone lined up? Showjumpers on this side and dressage riders on this side- now, we’ll get the dressage riders to go first, so get lined up! So do I have Sarah Dwindle first?” Sarah clucked Lil Cutie forward. Ellie knew that Sarah will do well-she had tried her best in dressage-and Lil Cutie was the cutest horse, probably in the barn. The Palomino mare with coal black eyes that Ellie did most love along with Chocolate. “Good luck,” whispered Ellie. “Can we please have Sarah Emma Dwindle in the arena, performing the parts of the dancing horses?” the announcer roared. The Dancing Horses was Sarah and Lil Cutie’s act. After time passed by, it was Ellie’s Showjumping turn. She glided over the fences, feeling no more but graceful. As she jumped the first few fences…she kept jumping over again and again and the fairy lights and the floodlights all had shined on her.