Why they can’t just announce the winners I don’t know. Maybe it’s because all of Jorvik comes to watch? Or maybe it’s because half of Jorvik comes that they need to make it exciting else people would loose interest. I suppose that the money from tickets just help go towards bursaries for people. Ah, well it doesn’t help with the nerves!
So the announcements work like this: first they announce the top three of each individual result, then the overall and then they take everyone off into a separate room away from everyone to announce their complete results (i.e. who is staying, who is going). Even if you get in the top three for an individual competition, it doesn’t mean that you’re through. The 16 of us sat in the front seats at the riding hall. I could hear the crowds buzz like impatient wasps. I wasn’t impatient, but then again I was. It’s a funny thing getting news like this. You don’t want to know but you do. It’s because you only want to know if it’s good news. Will my news be good news? Tyra stepped up to the podium and silence fell like a smothering blanket, “Ok, thank you everyone for coming. I hope you’ve had a good three days watching these wonderful 16 riders competing after their first term at the Silverglade Equestrian Centre. I’ve loved working with each and every one of them. Which ever 15 are still here after today, they all deserve a massive star. So thank you very much and remember, you were the best 16 to get here, you’re still and incredible rider and you deserve a lot. So first dressage results! In joint third place were: Kate Shawl and Isla de la Coze!” My heart leaped at my name. Me? Me? Third? Oh. My. God. As I stood up, I meant eye contact with Ali who gave me a “go on” grin. Isla andI stood on the podium together, holding our bronze medals and yellow rosettes. We grinned at each other. Alice came to take 2nd and a boy I’d seen but didn’t really know (besides Blake we hadn’t had much to do with the boys) called Josh came first. Actually, he does look familiar from a three day show a while back… Grinning my head off like an idiot, reseated myself next to Ali. Although I kept a listen out before my name (my heart leaping before every announcement in case it was me), I wasn’t called. Show jumping was won by Elysia with Olivia in second (why couldn’t she beat that snob) and Alice in third. I didn’t think I had much chance in XC after falling off, so I wasn’t surprised when I didn’t win that. However, Blake came second! I grinned so hard and felt so proud of him. He was beaten by Alice but he did beat Josh. Now, the overall results. I was trying my best to add it up in my head but only knowing the top three results made it impossible. Alice would probably win, she had come in the top three for everything. Josh had been in the top 3 twice so he, too, would probably make it to the top three. But, without knowing the other results, I didn’t know the third person. BLAKE! IT WAS BLAKE! Blake held his yellow rosette and bronze medal for coming third, overall. BLAKE - MY BLAKE. Ahhh! Being me, I was almost as happy to be proved right that Alice came first and Josh second as I would have been if I, myself, took the podium. “Good luck,” Ali whispered as she went off to her room where we’d be told all our results. “You too,” I murmured back. I didn’t know how Ali had done. She hadn’t done awful but I couldn’t tell. “Please, oh please,” I begged someone, anyone. I don’t believe it God but there must be someone I can beg for Ali to get through. For me to get through. I walked into the room and took a seat, barely thinking. It was Pauline, “Well done on third Kate,” she gestured at my medal. “You did really well. You came 3rd in dressage, of course, 9th in Show Jumping and 11th in Cross Country.” I was trying to do the maths. I was in the later half of both groups. Where was I overall? “Which meant overall you came 6th with 29 points! That’s really good, well done and I hope you have a great half term. Here are the results sheets for you to peer over.” We shook hands and I walked out. And then I ran. I was through! I was through! I was through! I ran even more until I was in the thorn bushes at the side of the riding hall. I sat down in them to look at everyone else’s results: DRESSAGE Josh Meadows Alice Patterson Kate Shawl, Isla de la Coze Blake Wall Benny Wright Alexa Colin David Smith Olivia Kamble Elysia Butterfield Tom Dun Luke Place Autumn Diamondson Alec Stacker Simon Harvey Miya Hawkin SHOW JUMPING Elysia Butterfield Olivia Kamble Alice Patterson Blake Wall Josh Meadows David Smith Simon Harvey Alexa Colin Kate Shawl Tom Dun Luke Place Benny Wright Autumn Diamondson Alec Stacker Isla de la cose Miya Hawkin XC Alicia Patterson Blake Wall Josh Meadows Autumn Diamondson Alexa Colin Tom Dun Luke Place Elysia Butterfield Olivia Kamble Benny Write Ka1te Shawl David Smith Miya Hawkin Simon Harvey Alec Stacker Isla de la cose Ali had been so close in XC, I hoped she’d be happy. But was she through? I looked at the overall results, shamefully hoping it was Elysia. Points were awards 16 for first, 15 for second, 13 for third, etc. OVERALL Alice Patterson - 45 Josh Meadows - 42 Blake Wall - 40 Elysia Butterfield - 32 Olivia Kamble - 31, Alexa Colin - 31 Kate Shawl - 29 David Smith - 25 Tom Dun - 24 Benny Wright - 23 Luke Place -21, Autumn Diamondson - 21 Isla de la cose - 17 Simon Harvey - 15 Alec Stacker - 8 Miya Hawkin -6 It was Miya. I knew her quite well. We only hung out in groups with the others girls but still she was a friend. She was close. But I was happy it wasn’t Ali. I guess it wasn’t Elysia because it only works out with the snobbish one going in stories. And this isn’t a story.
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