Chapter 2

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🙇🏼Narrator's P.O.V🙇🏼

Once again it was selling day for Tally. This day had already came 8 times, and 8 times was too many. Tally shifted his weight in the tight, compact trailer. As the trailer drove down the road connected to a long black pickup truck with silver stripes on it, Tally pondered about his next possible owner.
What if they over work me and they are strict?
Tally breathed slowly puffing in and out of his nose to calm his poor little soul down. His heart pounded heavily against his big horsey chest. Just then, Tally noticed he had stopped chewing on his hay, stored in his blue hay-net, tied securely on the silver ring pinned to the wall of the strong trailer. He stumbled on his hoof as he came back from 'planet daydream'. He swallowed his mouth full, but the hay had lost its taste from sitting in Tally's mouth for a long time. Just before the trailer turned a tight corner Tally thought:
Oh boy, what if I get killed by some new owners just like Jill the 'animal trainer'? She should have been called Jill the animal murder attemptist.
Just as Tally ended his thought the trailer turned left very sharply, his entire body, as heavy as it was, flew to the right of the trailer forcing Tally to lose his balance, almost falling to his feet. As he recovered from his unfortunate fall, the trailer slow down and the sound of gravel appeared under his hooves. The trailer came to a sudden halt and the driver door slammed. The trailer door opened letting tonnes of sunlight flood in. Tally had realised where he was: Ellington Hall.

Ellington Hall was the home of horses and Olympic riders trained there. Tally came here often as he was sold 8 times in one year. This was the 9th visit to Ellington Hall this year.

Ellington Hall was the place where Olympic riders train with their horses. The grounds were covered in willow and elm trees and flowers. The building was cream coloured and tall with a plaque just above the doorway, that read:
Ellington Hall 1704
The gardener and caretaker would work everyday of the year to keep the gardens all over Ellington Hall looking neat, no matter the weather. During the winter, winter plants grew and the same for all the seasons. (Autumn grew autumn plants....) Whenever the sun shone against the trees, shadows were cast against the perfectly cut grass. Creating an excellent backdrop for pictures. Models would always try to get their managers to hire Ellington Hall. Through a gate at the back of the field used for events like auctions and shows, was the four arenas and the stables for the horses. Ellington Hall had the most beautiful stables with the most gorgeous horses living inside of them. Each stable has a basket of different coloured flowers just under the 4 vertical metal bars as a window. There is a massive tack room and feed room with containers labeled with different horses names and the different sets of saddles and bridles with their saddle pads and grooming kits.

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