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Owner: blackhoeses
Name:
Height: 17.2 hh
Gender: Mare
Coat Color: Bay dun pangare
Eye Color: Mint
Season: APCT Custom Import

Please post your writing and any art entries for the APCT event on this page.
Deadline for entry is September 1.

[blackhoeses]

Name: Heba

Event: Triathlon

Entry:

Meeting and Training: Nancy was super excited and nervous as this was her first time entering APCT. She and her family had gentled and trained Arctic Drafts before. But Nancy was the first to try it for the APCT, as her Dad back the trailer to the loading shut Nancy could feel butterfly's in the bottom of her stomach. Soon she heard the snorting and banging as her Arctic Draft was sent through the shuts. And then the mare came around the corner, she bay dun maybe with pangare and it looked like she had some white wing eyeliner under her eyes. Nancy was so excited even under the dirt the mare was beautiful and she could even see some striping on her rump. It took a little but they soon had her loaded and Nancy and her Dad headed back to there farm.

Once they reached the family farm Dad back the trailer up to the gentling pen that all the drafts that came to them went into. It was extra sturdy with tall fencing and had a pen on each side. That they would put some of the family's drafts into so the newcomer could make friends and see the humans interacting with the tamed drafts. Nancy decide she would call the new mare Heba.

It took a good month before Heba was even letting Nancy in the pen with her, it had taken a lot of siting at the fence and spending time with the tame drafts near by before Heba would even consider this two legger as something other then a imitated threat. Slowly in the following months Nancy was able to gain Heba's trust and eventually even was able to get her to accept tack. Although both Heba and Nancy preferred bareback. As the time drew closer to the APCT Nancy could be found spending all of her spare time with Heba training. During the weekdays they worked on jumping and stamina on the weekends they would go mounting climbing/walking the more difficult trails and swimming laps in the local lake.

Jumping:
Heba and Nancy shifted there weight a little at the start line for the jumps, the were barely moving seeming super focused on the 6 jumps ahead. Not a singe one of the walls varying in heights intimated them, nor the fact that some were made of brick walls or barely tames hedges. Soon the sound to start went off and while the loud sound startled a few of the other drafts. Heba just pricked her ears and charged at the first jump. They were not the fasted pair but Heba's long legs ate up the ground and helped her hop over the tallest jump with easy. All to soon they were done with the jumps and were with the first group turning towards the lake.

Swimming:
Heba snorted a little at the bright ribbon and flags along with the people standing by them to help direct the APCT drafts and riders towards the lake. As Nancy and Heba reached the de-tacking station there was a big commotion and one of the drafts seemed to be done with everything going on. Nancy moved Heba off the the furthest point and even though it put them further away form the lake. Heba seemed excited to get the tack off, but stood still waiting for her lil human to finish getting the tack off. Soon Heba and Nancy were heading down to the edge of the lake and the were the 6th ones in to the water. Nancy took a deep breath and tried not to get excited. She instead focused on Heba and them swimming across the lake. The lake was just a bit cool but Heba seemed to be invigorated by the cool water. The pair powered across the lake reaching the other side in a decent amount of time.

Nancy made sure she was lined up with Heba's back as they came out of the lake. As water dripped off of them Nancy spotted her Dad and Grandpa waiting by there special climbing tack. Heba sensing her riders focus on something turned to look, once she spotted second favorite human Grandpa. Not much could have stopped her for getting Grandpa scratches, in no time Nancy was pulling on her sweeter and dry pants before. Helping to tack up Heba in 17 minutes the were standing at the start of the Mt. Jensen climbing trail. With in a few minutes of starting the mountain climbing the "trail" was getting rough, Nancy was a little worried as they had not trained on anything nearly so rough. She had no idea that the climb was going to be this crazy. But Heba seemed unphased by the rough going, in fact she was chomping at the bit so to speak to get going. Nancy dicied to let Heba have her head and trust Heba's instincts and knowledge. Soon Heba had them moving steadily up the mountain, her long legs let her move over some of the obstacles that the smaller drafts were struggling on but yet she was light enough to not have rocks shift too much under there weight. After quite a bit of time climbing and a few scares, the pair made it to the lookout point. As Nancy looked around she saw they were the 4th team to have made it to the lookout point. Nancy felt a since of accomplishments wash over and as they stood there looking out over the stunning view. All Nancy could think of was the bright future that her and Heba had together. Heba was her heart horse and she could not wait to go on more adventures and even competitions, along with just hang out.


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