March Maiden Dirt (Mar/Wk2)

[Snowflake]

March Maiden Dirt

<sub>Hello and welcome to the Y9 running of the March Maiden Dirt!

Past Winners
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RACE INFO
Nine Furlongs
Dirt

Judge = Wanted

RULES
x 2-8yo Open Gender
x Maiden Only
x Three Horses Per Member
x Post link to stats
x Comply with racing rules

PRiZES
1ST PLACE = $100,000
2ND PLACE = $50,000
3RD PLACE = $25,000

ENTRANTS
Furious Passion
Santana's Moment
Mystical Melody
Shell Shock
Epidemic
__ Entries

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[Snowflake]

Green Horse Stables
Furious Passion
Santana's Moment

[S u N f r O s t ~]

Mystical Melody jockeyed by Henna Turath

[tegie]

i can judge (p.s. sorry i haven't been around enough to judge lately.)

[sam]

Shell Shock
Epidemic- JUST realized that she's a maiden.. And she ran in the G5 in Spring Cup XDD

[S u N f r O s t ~]

Go right on ahead and judge Blank

[tegie]

March Maiden Dirt
first. epidemic
second. mystical melody
third. furious passion
fourth. shell shock
fifth. santana's moment

wow, very tough field. i couldn't decide between mystical melody and epidemic. they both stood out to me but the workouts sam has put into epidemic defiantly gave her an advantage. there were so many closers in this race that it was hard to judge. epidemic is lovely sam and i was glad to judge her again. sunfrost, mel is amazing, here workout was good and so were her bloodlines and everything but i felt like it was epidemic's time to shine, epidemic and mel sprinted and closed in but epidemic made the upset and just got his head in front. furious passion is really. Passion did really good considering he was the one leading the pack, i like this colt but he needs some more personality. shell shock, i'm so sorry to have placed her here i really wanted to place her higher but today she got bested. now santana's moment, this filly needs more works and her personality is to perfect sorry snowy, but she just seems to perfect. i hope everyone is happy with the results, i loved judging this race. good job!

[sam]

Woot! Finally Virus gets a win!
Thanks Blank ^.^

lol I'm fine with Shelly placing where she did considering an Immie baby took 3rd XD

[S u N f r O s t ~]

Second is good for us, thanks Blank

[Snowflake]

why does everyone think a nice horse is unrealistic and perfect? >< I'm going to have to change her personality completely.. And Furious Passion apparently needs an extra something something too. Thanks for running though Blank

[tegie]

why does everyone think a nice horse is unrealistic and perfect? >< I'm going to have to change her personality completely.

i'm glad you all like the placings but snowflake, personality adds so much to a horse, plus she's a two year old there not that easy to train take it from me. we have two two year olds at my barn and one is the sweetest thing but she still is a naughty girl. i'm just saying personality contributes to so much for me cause it lets me know what would happen if ____ happened in a race (thats a fill in the blank by the way) i hope you understand what i'm saying. no offense intended

[Snowflake]

Blank - Ive been playing/running GHF for over four years now. I'm pretty sure I know all about personalities and how things work on here. Having a two year old with a calm temperament isn't unrealistic - I'm sure there have been plenty of two year olds that are lovely to race. Plus, you must have misread the parts where it said she was anything but calm when racing down the stretch - being calm should be an advantage when loading in the gate and running the race up until the final furlongs.

Also, I don't know why you had Furious Passion as the pack leader, because he's a closer..

I looked after a filly for over a year, from when she was about nine months old to almost two years - she was an absolute sweetheart. She hardly ever spooked at anything.. used to gallop out of her yard every morning right to the other end of her paddock, then race back up to her feeding area. The only annoying things she did was hit me in the head with her chain (dont ask, I have no idea why she had a chain on her halter. her owner has been breeding winning standardbreds for like twenty years, so there must be some good reason) when I was walking through the field with her feed to lock her in her yard for the night, and breaking the electric fences when they werent on lol. One day, I dont know how, but she somehow was half over the fence. Forelegs on one side, hindlegs on the other side. I had to unhook the fence and put it down underneath her, then lead her back over it, and she barely flinched. Another time I came in the afternoon to feed her, and found her lapping up molasses from a bucket between the feed sheds. She decided then to touch me and put the stuff all over my white shirt >< Annoying girl.

But her half brother, (he was two, turning three) who I looked after for a further five or six months after she was sold, was a big, rude bully. He was well over sixteen hands (my own horse is only 15 hands!) and very pushy when it was dinner time. When I was looking after both, they both decided to walk through the yard gate at the same time, squashing me against the gate lol

Ahh i miss those two. Particularly little Annie

[sam]

Feb 20, 2010 18:06:59 GMT -5 Snowflake said:

I looked after a filly for over a year, from when she was about nine months old to almost two years - she was an absolute sweetheart. She hardly ever spooked at anything.. used to gallop out of her yard every morning right to the other end of her paddock, then race back up to her feeding area. The only annoying things she did was hit me in the head with her chain (dont ask, I have no idea why she had a chain on her halter. her owner has been breeding winning standardbreds for like twenty years, so there must be some good reason) when I was walking through the field with her feed to lock her in her yard for the night, and breaking the electric fences when they werent on lol. One day, I dont know how, but she somehow was half over the fence. Forelegs on one side, hindlegs on the other side. I had to unhook the fence and put it down underneath her, then lead her back over it, and she barely flinched. Another time I came in the afternoon to feed her, and found her lapping up molasses from a bucket between the feed sheds. She decided then to touch me and put the stuff all over my white shirt >< Annoying girl.

But her half brother, (he was two, turning three) who I looked after for a further five or six months after she was sold, was a big, rude bully. He was well over sixteen hands (my own horse is only 15 hands!) and very pushy when it was dinner time. When I was looking after both, they both decided to walk through the yard gate at the same time, squashing me against the gate lol

Ahh i miss those two. Particularly little Annie

lol That was a tad random

But I've personally never met a calm two year old. Or three year old for that matter.
Butch for example, I've known since he was born.
He's a sweetie but a brat. We've had plenty of people bitten by him and he's reared up nearly three times every time I go out with him. He's not mean or anything. He just wants to play

Even another three year old, Bree, is just a little brat. She'll paw her way to china if you let her. She's very pushy and doesn't understand how big she is. Nor is she too bright. She randomly kicked a girl one day for no reason. She was being lead back to the pasture and the girl was standing near by, just watching and doing absolutely nothing but standing there. Out of nowhere, Bree just kicked out and hit the girl in the stomach then kept walking like nothing at all happened. The handler didn't even realize it until the girl that got kicked said something.

Another three year old is the devil, himself. I swear she must be!
Little bitc- I mean brat, stood in the stall door for nearly half an hour last week because she knew I needed the stall. (It's connected to the pasture and she'll normally walk right out and go to the hay) Every time I asked her to move, she would either kick or bite me. Then tried to bite me and another horse (her mother who had a feeding bag on so she couldn't exactly bite back) (I got revenge though by throwing a snow ball at her through the fence XD She never knew what hit her!)

So all of the young horses I know (I didn't mention all of them) are absolute brats. (Not necessarily Bree though. She's just not too smart lol)

[tegie]

Snowy, I'm not telling you how to run, and if you took time to notice before accusing me of furious passion being pack leader. every single horse in this race is a closer so obviously it was hard to judge how it went down. i did read about the race where she was anything but calm racing but what horse thats in a race and a two year old that is calm. i just saying it's very unrealistic, this is the way i judge and i didn't mean any offense to you but obviously you took it the wrong way so understand that i was just helping you out. i know you run ghf but that doesn't mean that i like perfect horses. i'm just putting my opinion out there because i don't deserve to be yelled at.

[Snowflake]

Maybe a bit lol

Blank, I wasn't yelling at you. I don't know where you got that idea.. All I said was

why does everyone think a nice horse is unrealistic and perfect? >< I'm going to have to change her personality completely.. And Furious Passion apparently needs an extra something something too. Thanks for running though Blank

So you didn't even need to reply to that. I wasn't telling you how to run, I was just arguing that calm two year olds aren't totally unrealistic lol. I've changed her personality now anyway.
And I'm sorry, I didn't realise all were closers.