Post by creativecause on Aug 24, 2015 16:45:26 GMT -5
Ephermeral and Aaron Evertt
Royal Charm and Alex Shade
Momentarily Herself and Andrew Martin
The rolling hills of Nebraska had always been a welcome sight to all of Grayson Meadows’ staff. It wasn’t your usual backdrop of a race track, and it didn’t impress everyone with its beauty that few seemed to really understand. However, in the snowy months of the winter all of Grayson Meadows’ racing string were transported to The Wire, Green Horse Fields, and Battlestone Downs where there wasn’t a solid foot of snow covering their workout tracks.
The excitement about having their string of two year olds hit the track in the next few weeks was nothing short of high. So the first three of the Grayson Meadows seven horse two year old roster were spread three wide across the track.
The first of the three was Momentarily Herself, a rather temperamental filly at times. She was blazing fast and had a very quick cruising speed that could leave any horse in the dust. Ari was the result of Dylan Himself and Santana’s Moment, she was also a three quarter sister to miler success Supernatural and by her recent works, she looked every bit the part.
The next in the middle was the first foal of Union Jaque, Royal Charm. The firey-red chestnut filly was having quite the time trying to control herself. Even from the grandstands you could tell this filly was a Union Jaque foal. She had the kind, intelligent eye that seemed to be a trait of the mare that all of her foals had. When the filly had arrived at Grayson Meadows as a weanling, they didn’t know what to expect of her. Today, they were hoping to have quite a success story with her. She may be a gangly two year old, but she didn’t run like one. This little filly had one of the strongest closing kicks in all of the land and once she got rolling she was darn near unstoppable.
The third was a pretty little filly. She was a lighter, near dun looking bay and had one distinguishable blaze/stripe marking. She was walking on eggshells, her ears perked and eyes bugging out. Aaron Evertts regular mount was a sight to behold. They’d walked Effie around the track by foot, ponied her around it, and spent hours sitting with her by it but the filly was straight up scared of just about everything. She was practically on top of Royal Charm, sticking her face over the smaller filly’s neck and leaving absolutely no space between them whatsoever. The behavior was actually rather normal for the daugher of Foxtrot and Everyday Hero. The only place she didn’t act like something was going to jump out and eat her was at Grayson Meadows’ home track. However, the behavior didn’t really concern anyone. Because once the filly got running she didn’t care what track she was on.
“Alright, you heard the boss, four furlong breeze and try not to kill anyone.” Alex called to the crew as they headed for the starting gates.
Ari was the first of the three to load, and she went in without an issue. Charm was a bit hesitant but after some prodding from Alex she decided it was in her best interest to go into the gate. Effie on the other hand stood petrified looking at the contraption with an interest. Stretching her nose to smell it and then backing away from it unsure of what to think.
“You know with the amount of gate schooling the two of you have done in the past month you would think she’d go right-” Alex started but Effie easily silenced him by smelling the gate again before walking straight in.
Aaron smugly looked over and smirked at Alex, pulling her goggles off her helmet and onto her face. “You were saying? Oh and just so you know, the only thing you’ll be seeing of her in the stretch is her rear end.”
Alex twitched a little in annoyance but didn’t get a chance to respond because the gates flew open.
Ari shot from them like a rocket, easily striding out to the lead and putting her brisk, but easy cruise control on. Alex hustled Charm about half a length off of Ari and Aaron and Effie sat back about five lengths off of the rest of the crew. Some people this would probably worry, but Aaron knew better after nine months of working with this filly she knew her better than anyone, having been the one that broke her and the only person who had ridden her. It was a huge advantage and one Aaron quite enjoyed having.
Ari flew across the dirt easily putting a length between her and a easy traveling Charm. Ari’s hooves hardly touched the earth as she flew along into the final two furlongs and started putting on some heat but was met with equal strides by a rather insistent Charm. The two engaged in a head to head battle each trying to outrun the other and quickly their workout turned into a all out drive to the wire. They didn’t even notice the tall, shining Ephermeral that Aaron had expertly placed outside of her foe’s that was now charging down the center of the track with huge strides to steal the win by a length while 2nd and 3rd was impossible to place between Charm and Ari.