New Territory

The rolling grey hunk of garbage spinning out from the car in front of her turned out to be a raccoon, that she didn't hit but she was horrified, and remembered how she had once before hit a bunny.

She cried for a long time on 1-75 after seeing an SUV in front of her smush a black lab puppy that had basically run out into the wheels of the vehicle. The vehicle stopped, but Jill wondered just what they would be able to do for the animal. How tragic! 


Upon arriving in her location, she told them about it on the farm.  After she described the drive, they told her about all the feral dogs in that area and how they had started to refer to that stretch of highway as Dead Dog Road...  with a bit of a laugh. 
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When Jill crossed the border into the United States, she had a letter in her pocket from a Canadian stable that read:

Jill Wentworth is a USEF, CEF and OEF Member in good standing, and is training and competing in the US this winter to prepare for events/competitions later in the season. Due to climate restrictions in Canada, athletes are required to spend a considerable time in the Southern United States in order to prepare for competition.
No international equestrian competitor can be successful without a highly-capable person training their horses. Jill Wentworth has a sixth sense about horses that allows her to calmly work with even the most difficult horses. Her training programs are painstakingly constructed to maximize a horse’s ability through proper exercise, training, diet and rest. She works tirelessly to produce horses that in the best shape on the circuit, as well as being well versed in longeing and ground training techniques necessary to improve their flexibility, stregnth and way of going. She also has basic knowledge of how to treat injuries, with a diverse ability to diagnose and treat most ailments.
I have found horses trained by her to be invariably maintained in truly outstanding condition, enabling her to compete and manage several others at a time when most riders consider themselves lucky to have a single horse under their care. I am delighted to have Jill as a member of the Equestrian Team training under my instruction and supervision. All her medical insurance, accommodation. food, travel and training fees have been paid in advance.   We expect the course of the student internship to run five months.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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Jill said she'd almost wept with joy the first time she'd entertained the the IDEA of her fella tacking up a horse for her. "Does that make me easy, or hard to please???"

And then, it happened. Jim said for her to rest in the sun on the picnic table and he'd get the bays ready to ride.