Post by creativecause on Nov 15, 2014 12:22:41 GMT -5
The Teacher
Girl Talk and Andrew Martin
Immortal Flight and Jessie Coppermen
Lassy attempted to lip on her bit which she was quickly finding incredibly hard to do because it was in her mouth which she seemed to not understand. Andrew kept eyeing Jessie on Nico as he laughed hysterically at them. He’d told him several times to shush up but that did little to stop him from laughing.
Lassy would be taking on a much stronger field than she normally would take on, it was against older horses but Lassy herself was getting older and in recent workouts she’d proven that she could handle them.
Immortal Flight would be taking on a former stablemate and current stablemate in his next start. Handsome Tabby would prove to be quite the challenge over a shorter distance but so would Daddy’s Overdraft. Cobweb seemed to have taken quite the liking to shorter distances around 7-10 furlongs and was turning into quite the animal over them. However Nico had his own style of running and that would help him immensely against the other two. He was one win away from a well deserved retirement and everyone was rooting for him to finally get that 13th win.
So Steve had paired the two of them together and it looked like the work may be promising, they got along well and Nico could provide Lassy with some much needed experience. She’d had a very light season, and there wasn’t a HOTY race to her record yet, and she wouldn’t take on the big dogs until the end of November. Lassy definitely had talent to burn but she needed to tap into it.
The gates flew open and the two scurred out of the gates together. Lassy immediately pressured Nico and he pushed her back. There was a beauty in their communication, it was like Nico knew what he was supposed to do and Lassy willingly followed after him. Nico took his massive stride and sped things up a little allowing Lassy to stretch herself out more. The pair flew seamlessly over the turf, the pace was light but it wouldn’t be come the far turn.
The far turn opened up ahead of them and Nico put aside his teacher attitude and lunged for the lead, Lassy took this as a cue and began to chase him and when they hit the home stretch all heck broke loose. Nico flew to a three length lead ahead of Lassy and looked to make this work an absolute walkover but then out of the clouds Lassy flew after him as if she’d sprouted wings, losing by a nose at the wire.