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Beau's First Dance

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Whee :D Beau is out and about already! And in traditional form too :)

I haven't done any painting for a little while and Beau just cries out to be done in watercolours.

I had a little trouble with the pose here, so I did reference this lovely image - [link] - fairly heavily, though obviously Pascale was made up quite a lot and I have changed the gait from a trot to a canter.

This is for *broomstick88's Winter Show and Ball.

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Pascale was a bit of a mystery to most of the Brighthelm staff.
He had phoned up one day and asked for Thomas, been surprised to be passed over to Tom the head lad, and then explained that he actually meant the owner of the stables. Marion had taken the call, and a few days later he had shown up in a rented horsebox with this seal brown mare and set up home in the spare room.
The horse was even more of a mystery. Why was she called Beau when she was a she and her owner (as it later transpired, co-owner) was French? Why had Marion allowed a stranger to bring such an anti-social horse into the stables? Why was she listed as a dressage horse when she had the most shuffling gaits in the world?
It was only a week or so later, when Pascale and Beau had both settled in, that things began to become clear. Pascale hadn't ridden Beau a great deal since arriving, and exercising her had mostly been up to Aaron and Jemima. Jemima had just taken a group hack out and was leading them back when she saw a brown figure dancing in the large outdoor school. It was Beau, ridden by Pascale, doing a graceful, high-actioned trot .
It still wasn't clear who either of them were or why they were here by the time of the Royal Dauphin Winter Ball, but at least now everyone understood why they were coming along.
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:la: yay Beau!
She sounds like such a character, can't wait to see more of her and Pascale.