http://doversworld.com/blog/2010/03/14/ravel-wins-at-show-park/ The website of Robert Dover Tue, 22 May 2012 08:15:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 http://doversworld.com/blog/2010/03/14/ravel-wins-at-show-park/comment-page-1/#comment-8123 DP Sun, 02 May 2010 06:09:51 +0000 http://doversworld.com/blog/?p=2409#comment-8123 The gate keeper had a beige jacket draped over her legs because it was cold and she was told by the show organizer to bring a blanket. More significant than the blanket may be where the gate keeper was told to sit. Rather than sitting at A, she was sitting right at the diagonal by K, exactly where she had been told to sit. As a result, every time a horse came down the diagonal to K, the horse was staring directly at her. This was the first show where the gate keeper had ever volunteered. The only thing she was guilty of was doing exactly what she was asked to do in exactly the way she was asked to do it. The gate keeper had a beige jacket draped over her legs because it was cold and she was told by the show organizer to bring a blanket. More significant than the blanket may be where the gate keeper was told to sit. Rather than sitting at A, she was sitting right at the diagonal by K, exactly where she had been told to sit. As a result, every time a horse came down the diagonal to K, the horse was staring directly at her.
This was the first show where the gate keeper had ever volunteered. The only thing she was guilty of was doing exactly what she was asked to do in exactly the way she was asked to do it.

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