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L R Trovillion
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False Gods: The Show Jumper's Challenge
Teens
Author Insight
That Out of Control Feeling
When riding a horse, you had better be the one in charge or else the horse will lose confidence and take over. Often times in a crisis situation, an intelligent horse senses the rider's lack of decisiveness and out of self-preservation will take over all decisions. However, they might not be good ones for the rider! Do you ever feel like life is an out-of-control horse you're riding and can't get off? Like Cory in this scene, have you ever just shut your eyes and prayed? Much in life is out of our control but most of it is the result of a lot of small choices along the way. The New Year gives us a chance to turn things around. A fresh start. An opportunity to get off the runaway horse.
Book Excerpt
False Gods: The Show Jumper's Challenge
She steered him to the last jump, the little vertical rail, the one she hadn’t worried about. They had too much speed coming into it. Her shoulders ached and her legs didn’t seem to respond to what her brain was telling them as she tried to slow Pressman. She grabbed at the reins. As soon as he turned the corner and spotted the jump, he started a flat-out run. Her heart beat a wild tattoo against her chest and droplets of sweat rolled down her side. She shortened the reins again, pulling, knowing it was the exact opposite thing she should be doing but couldn’t stop herself.
Not good, not good, she thought, trying to sit up and take charge. The horse wasn’t listening. Annoyed at her, he ripped the reins through her fingers and ran faster. The jump was right in front of them. Cory folded forward over his neck, released her grip on the reins, shut her eyes, and prayed.
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