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Edit: He got second!!! 8D Haha I'm so proud of him -- he even won Overall Champion at this show! Little Outlawwww! 
Edit 2: And he was featured in the April 2013 HARPG Newsletter!
Niels Richardson and Outlaw Star at Coastal Stables's Hunter Training Show (Hunter Over Fences, 3' Class)
The fourth and final in a set of images for this particular show. Huzzah!
If you go by the Kübler-Ross model, the "acceptance" stage of grief hardly ever comes quietly. In Niels's case, the repetitive grief Outlaw was giving him in their first ever foreign competition had gone through several rather violent stages; most notably, Niels went from being completely in denial of his recently-gelded hunter's apparent amnesia concerning his specialty discipline to being quietly enraged at being made an internationally-acclaimed fool by said hunter.
Now, it was all furtive loathing and dreams of vindication.
Outlaw was rather less concerned with his rider's malaise than he was with the malaise of the competing mares in general. As Niels put the horse through his paces in the warm-up area, Outlaw was able to get a good look at his opponents -- and he was reminded that a good many of them were females. Attractive females.
Of course, most of the mares had a decent head on their shoulders and weren't about to look at any gelding, that's for sure, but Outlaw didn't know that. He just thought they hadn't quite noticed him yet, and knew that the spotlight only came to those who won -- and those who won with style.
Outlaw has some style.
In the show ring, he made his circle without any fuss, and he even put his head down to give poor Niels a break from his incessant muttering of death-threats and coarse insults. It was when the redheaded young man turned his less-than-trusty steed towards the first line that the aforementioned steed got creative.
His form over fences had always been good, but with Outlaw committing a hundred and ten percent to his performance, his form over fences became... well, memorable. Spectators were treated to the sight of what looked like a very colorful gazelle bounding over three-foot fences with his knees and hocks pulled right up to chin-level -- and the whole way through, Outlaw kept a glamorously lifted headset. For those who were close enough to hear, over the very top of each fence came a new and vitriol-injected piece of profanity courtesy of the gazelle's curiously caucasian rider.
If you go by the Kübler-Ross model, the "acceptance" stage of grief hardly ever comes quietly.
Edit 2: And he was featured in the April 2013 HARPG Newsletter!
Niels Richardson and Outlaw Star at Coastal Stables's Hunter Training Show (Hunter Over Fences, 3' Class)
The fourth and final in a set of images for this particular show. Huzzah!
If you go by the Kübler-Ross model, the "acceptance" stage of grief hardly ever comes quietly. In Niels's case, the repetitive grief Outlaw was giving him in their first ever foreign competition had gone through several rather violent stages; most notably, Niels went from being completely in denial of his recently-gelded hunter's apparent amnesia concerning his specialty discipline to being quietly enraged at being made an internationally-acclaimed fool by said hunter.
Now, it was all furtive loathing and dreams of vindication.
Outlaw was rather less concerned with his rider's malaise than he was with the malaise of the competing mares in general. As Niels put the horse through his paces in the warm-up area, Outlaw was able to get a good look at his opponents -- and he was reminded that a good many of them were females. Attractive females.
Of course, most of the mares had a decent head on their shoulders and weren't about to look at any gelding, that's for sure, but Outlaw didn't know that. He just thought they hadn't quite noticed him yet, and knew that the spotlight only came to those who won -- and those who won with style.
Outlaw has some style.
In the show ring, he made his circle without any fuss, and he even put his head down to give poor Niels a break from his incessant muttering of death-threats and coarse insults. It was when the redheaded young man turned his less-than-trusty steed towards the first line that the aforementioned steed got creative.
His form over fences had always been good, but with Outlaw committing a hundred and ten percent to his performance, his form over fences became... well, memorable. Spectators were treated to the sight of what looked like a very colorful gazelle bounding over three-foot fences with his knees and hocks pulled right up to chin-level -- and the whole way through, Outlaw kept a glamorously lifted headset. For those who were close enough to hear, over the very top of each fence came a new and vitriol-injected piece of profanity courtesy of the gazelle's curiously caucasian rider.
If you go by the Kübler-Ross model, the "acceptance" stage of grief hardly ever comes quietly.
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"...incessant muttering of death-threats ..."
"...the sight of what looked like a very colorful gazelle bounding over three-foot fences with his knees and hocks pulled right up to chin-level..."
Oh my goodness
"...the sight of what looked like a very colorful gazelle bounding over three-foot fences with his knees and hocks pulled right up to chin-level..."
Oh my goodness