She led Rain into the barn so she could unsaddle her and check her over before she loaded her. She hung Brock’s saddle on the hitching post in front of the barn and loaded her horse in the trailer, glad she’d had the forethought to load all her tack in the trailer this morning before she’d gone out to lunch with Ainsley and Christina.
Since Tracie had told her Jessie would meet her at the outdoor arena at two, she headed straight there. The barrels were still set up from Jessie’s frustrating practice yesterday—the one that had prompted Tracie to call her—so she unloaded Rain, saddled her, and walked the mare lazily through the course. Noting some resistance and stubbornness, Heather directed the mare around the barrels, switching up the distance from them and which barrel they turned arou
