“Experienced girl groom required for hunters and stud work. “We got the gold!”As Rupert rode out of the arena at a walk, the whole stadium rose to their feet to applaud him. At the weekends she froze on sight-seeing tours, shivering at Stratford, at the Tower and on the train down to Hampton Court and in numerous art galleries. Fen was not stupid, just exhausted and totally unmotivated.
Mum was the cook, so the headmaster let me in free. He couldn’t look as the lorry drove off over the bridge, through the fringe of willows. “I hope your alarm clock works,” he said. In every major competition he’d ever jumped, Billy’d been there to fool around with, bounce ideas off and talk out problems.
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