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Sometimes it’s hard to see the attraction of horse shows when you’re standing outside a dusty ring in unbearable heat watching round after round, all of which look the same.
It can take a bizarre situation like watching a show with the rain running down your neck, your pants soaked through and your body frozen before you see the attraction in showing.
Such was the case last weekend when the Rappahannock Hunt hosted its first show, amid a monsoon.
Why would anyone want to show a horse in the rain and mud, when they could be indoors sipping on a beer while watching the Three Stooges and Gary Cooper movies on TV?
But no one at Bill Fletcher’s Montpelier was complaining as they waited to go into the muddy ring. In fact, almost everyone had a smile on their faces as they hunched up in the saddle and triecl not to think about the rain dripping off the end of their noses or the big wet patch in the seat of their jodphurs that felt like it might turn into an iceberg at any moment.
Paradoxically, everyone appeared to be enjoying themselves, and it’s hard to be miserable when all around you are happy.
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