Chapter Thirty-One
Lipizzaners Shipped
The day started off ordinarily enough.
We had our usual morning exercise period after we’d been fed, then, halfway through the morning, while we all practised as double-girl teams, we were coffled together and led off to the shipping area of the Palace. Once there we were lined up on the concrete loading dock, our hooves clattering while we shifted with nervous anticipation; the Trainers having run a long rein from front to back, clipping each team to rings on it with short connecting straps from the centres of the straps joining the n****e tensioning posts. The 15 metre length of the longitudinal strap had heavy locks fastened to it every two metres, and at each of these positions, the n****e post joining strap of one team was attached. That conne
