08/05/2026 22:54

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The presents are from the children. He could hardly concentrate on the clips of straining javelin throwers, and sprinters crashing through the tape, and muddy three-day-eventers, and Anne Moore getting her silver. There’s more to show-jumping than the inside of a tack-cleaning bucket. Riding quietly out of the collecting ring he saw Helen Campbell-Black.

Then Marion (Helen never knew if it were deliberate) put her up on one of the novices, who carted her With 100 first prize there was a lot of competition from neighbouring counties. Bastard, bastard, bastard, he hadn’t changed at all. Later, when he’d unloaded and settled the other horses, he made a cross and put it on the grave.