Re: Do you have what it takes?

[Man O' War Lover]

"I watched you race the fillys at Elly's Downs." He said noding "They did pretty good." He looked at Ray "Mostly what I have heard is that War Queen is a distance horse." Ronny looked into the back seat "There all racing though." He said. "Can't wait to see them race in person." said Andrew "I think there doing better then most of what there age group does this early in the year." He said-

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Maria
" the secret was to them running so well is that they all were presents after I become a offical jokey out of my grandfathers best mares and sire by the best stallions. My grand father would pray over the three mare while they were pregnant and only give them the best food water and treats he could get and out came my three horses who I personaly trained with my grandfather" she said with a warm smile " just don't blink when watching all of the lights she's seattle slews granddaughter, she a sprinter to medium distance if you blink you might miss her" she said with a laugh

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Ray smiled a her. "You know All The Lights will be one of the better odd horses, maybe a 2-1 shot." He said "Since she does best in a short distance and the race is not to long." He commited. Andrew said "I have seen your grandfather before to, he strikes me as a good owner." Ronny said "Does your grandfather have any yearlings for sale Maria?" Ray had a feeling he would ask that. Ronny helped buy stalk most of the time it was something he took intrest in. He even helped by Deep Silence. We where a couple of hourse from the airport though-

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maria
" shes a great mover all three of them are " she and looked at ray then smiled at andrew " trust me when i say he is an amazing owner trainer and breeder hes just an all around good person and back in his day he was a great jockey only had one lost and that was to my grandmother" she said smiling " and yes i think he has maybe 3 or 4. 2 where trained and handled by myself and other 2 my grandmother helped my gentle" she said

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Andrew smiled "Most of the men in my family are jockeys we have two femal jockeys." He said "My sister in law is Australian and she a jockey." He said "And my younger brother jumps." He said "Well steeplchasing anyway." Ray smiled a little.

A few hours later....the airport.

Sammy parked us near the chain fence so we could unload the horses and get them borded. Specail stalls for horses where ready to be filled as Sammy and the extra grooms unloaded the trailers. Storm Stride walked down the ramp rather quickly the plane ingions in the background gave him a start but he settled down after he was lead up the ramp leading into the plane. Andrew helped before he had to board himself followed by Ronny with Sammy in charge-

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Maria
" I'm an only child but my grnadmother and grandfather were jockys so was my dad. My mother is an eventer same with most of my moms side of the family" she said " I'm more of a jockey as you can see but I do eventing when I'm not racing to keep both sides of the horse world bloodlines alive in my family" sh finished with. As they arrived at the airport maria helped unload the horses, all of the lights the calmest of her three horses just snorted and lazily followed the groom out of the trailer. Mighty warrior being the big colt he was tried acting big and brave even though he tensed up at the planes taking off and landing. " your such a brave boy" maria coed to him as she petted him only to quickly raise her head when a piercing whinny came from the trailer. War queen always made a fuse when she was away from maria too long or when she couldn't see her and heard weird scary sounds " queen I'm right here silly girl" maria called as she jogged over to the trailer. War queen cantered out of the trailer right to maria, queen was shaking but soon calmed down as maria started to talk to her in irish and native american which soothed. Queen to the point as if she wasn't even at the air port

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Sammy sorted out all caios going on at the time as we loeaded the horses in there stalls. A seprate trailer pulled up followed by a small truck. "Well Four Winds is here!" Ronny called. I went to go stand by Maria "Well be boarding soon." I said. The handlers on the plane got all the stalls sacure for take off as the new arivals where lead from there horse box. Or make that one....The Captin was a large light colored flea bitten gray with a dark main and tail, he was sired by Shooting Magic who was full brother to Magic Man. "He's running in the Derby as well." I told Maria. The three year old moved along slowly but beahved himself. He had on the thin white travel blancket with the Four Winds crest on the side. When he was loaded onto the plane the others greated him with nickers and whinnes. "Let's get our stuff on boared to." I said-

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Maria
As the smaller trailer and truck pulled up maria looked from ray to the large flea bitten grey colt that came slowly yet calmly from the trailer. " if that's the captin, he's one of the ones I've been asked to ride in the derby" she said as she and ray walked to get their things and load onto the plane. A few workers at the airport loading area reconized maria as the ice queen and asked for pictures and autographes. " well be cheering for you this week" they yell to her as she walked up the ramp. Maria smiled and waved to them before entering the plane

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I smiled a little and chukled "He and Four Wind's owner Gorge Harper have friendly cometions some times. They both had a a share in Magic Man and Shooting Magics sire when he was born. Gorge owned the sires dam and father owned the sire, the horses name was Bold Magic." I said. When the workers came over I went to see is Jeff was there he was The Captin's exsersize rider. "Hey Maria!" I turned to see Four Winds owner walking toured her when she was getting ready to board. I stopped to wait for her admitingly eas dropping, a guilty smile on my face. Goge Harper was younger than dad but just as secsefule. He looked at Maria "You get that message from the farm secratary? She called about a test run on Captin when we got to Churchill Downs." He said-

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Maria
She turned just in time to see mr.harper walking over towards her " hey there mister harper" she said warmly as he came over to her " yes I got the message and I can't wait I've watched the big guy run he's looking great" she said with a smile and zipped up her jacket as the early morning breeze blew past them

[Man O' War Lover]

"Yes he is thank you." He paused "And I also got a call from Mr. Homes he said since the Oaks is being runat Churchill this year due to a problem at Belmont and that his other jockey got hurt that you are riding Dacing Image?" He said "I was wondering if you where intrested in riding Shallow for me in the Oaks but it looks Ronny beat me to asking you to ride." He said. Walkign up into the plane he continued....boy he was a chater bug I thought standing back watching them for a moment. Shaking my head I sat down and thought a moment. As Mr. Harper sat down my father turned in his seat he said rather rudley "Why all the sudden intrest in Maria riding for you, I mean she's a great jockey but you havents said anything untill now Gorge?" It was as if he where saying back off she riding for River Bend. I would have laughed out loud in my seat when he spat the question at him, latley my father had been a bite snippy. Sometimes they faught over stuff like that but Maria had lot's of people asking her to ride for them you couldn't blame Harper for liking Maria riding style and skill. I sunk in my seat avioding Jeffs sniker in the seat beside me as he sat down. To change the subject and break the tension I said to Maria "I'm riding Magic Arrow in the Derby." Those two faught over stuff like this most of the time she might adjust to it pretty quickly.v "Welcome to the world of jealous and agresive protective race horse owners." I joked-

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Maria
She smiled " yes sir I will be riding dancing image in the oaks" she said as they walked into the air plane as maria found her seat she heard mister homes snip at mister harper that she rides for river ben, she couldn't help but giggle slightly as she sat down across from ray " that's awesome hope you cvan keep up with the ice queen she just might freeze you out with her icey stare" she said with a wink know that's what happen in the past with some other rides she ridden against, they got freaked out about how calm cool and collected she was during a race. " don't worry my grandfather is worse them both of them especially with his irish temper and spending most of his early years in england until he was 12 his temper is pretty scary but I am good under stress and pressure" she said as she pulled out her smart phone to just tell her family she had boarded the plane and was about to take off

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I smile "I don't know Magic Man is one of our best three-year-olds." I said. "I can still ride pretty good remmeber I won the aprentice of the year eclipse award." I said teasing. Jeff looke dat me funny "Yeah but that Marty won Jockey of the year." I frowned "I don't like him he's a little let's say....rude and risky." "He's easly anoyyed." Added Jeff looking at Maria. "He's riding a heavy favriot named Fantisy Gal' a chestnut three-year-old and the only femal race horse racing in the Derby this year." I looked at Maria "She won the Wood Mamorial the race where most Kentucky Derby entreys run in right before they go to race in the Derby, and she won." I said. "In fact she was one our horses." I added "But dad sld her at a yearling auction for $60,000." I said "Some say she will be the fifth feamal horse in history to win the Derby." I say-

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Maria
" sure. But that doesn't mean. Your going to beat me sweet heart" she said. She listened to ray and jeff talk about this other jockey, marty " oh marty no tonly is he rude and risky he's a bad kisser. I dated him when he won that award come to find out he told people well more likne threaten them not to vote for me and it doesn't matter if he's riding that fastest horse in the world he can kiss his chances of winning good bye" maria said. She really didn't like marty at all

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I look at Maria "Well you can't deny he is a good jockey and that's the only good thing about him, but I still hate him." I said. "I thought you just didn't like him?" Jeff asked "Well now I hate him." I said holding Maria's hand. "How about we talk about something difrent huh?" I said, Maria probably didn't want to talk about it in a way neather did I leave it to Marty to ruin evreything. Jeff almost jumped in his seat "I was ging to tell you but I got side tracked. I have been hearing some funny stuff from Sammy." He said pointing in the back where the grom sat talking to other stable hands and the handlers who worked on the plane.

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Maria
" he's an ok jockey he's only good because he gets amazing horses to ride and after he's done he rewens them" she said before feeling ray take her hand she placed other hand on his thigh calming him down. Maria looked over at jeff in a confusing look " what do you mean what has he been saying?" She asked growing curious

[Man O' War Lover]

"Well it's just weird how Sammy has been coming down to Four Wind's to talk to Mr. Harper. He's always talking about going on aironds for Mr. Archer and how Mr. Archer is selling shares of ownerships of lot's of River Bend horses." He paused "Also I heard Mr. Archer planes on selling Storm Stride for stud to Mr. Harper. You see Mr. Harper has a big stud farm down in England where he has a bloodstalk agent and keeps talking about some horse named Funny Feet and stuff." I frowned "I think father would have told me that, all thos ehorses ownerships legaly go over to me once the farm is in my name. I may not onw them now but he should be telling me about this stuff.....you sure you heard right from Sammy?" I asked Jeff. Shaking his head he said "We talked about it, there having a private sale in a couple of months." I thought a moment in a couple of months the Triple Crown series will be over and if Storm Stride wins it his worth in money will double if not triple same goes for Magic Man or The Captin or even Fantisy Gal'. Not to mention Storm Strides winning streak. I looked at Maria "I think you know what I'm thinking." I said Jeff looked more confused "What's the big deal horses like Stormy get sold all the time?" I frowned "My father does not gamble with money but he does like a friendly bet and buissise deal." I said-

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Maria
She listened to ray and jeff talking thinking the. Whole time but her attention was brought back down to earth when she heard funny feets name " yah my grandfather rodney harrison has sold some stallions to him and has had some of his mares breed out there" she said " what do they want with funny feet?" She asked " so wait...basically the triple crown races are mainly going to be between those four horses and if I'm hearing you right who's ever horse wins the winner gets the losers horse?" She said poundering about. It

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"Um sorry I think I got you confused there's gonna be atlest 20 horses in the Derby this year, but the purse is about $1,000,000 but not to mention they have to split it up between first, second, thrid, and fourth placers." He said, I looked at Maria "My father and Gorge Harper have done this betting thing for some years, if Storm Stride wins that means my father will get some free breeding spots or mares from Harper if they made a bet. And if The Captin wins Goge will probably get the same thing." I paused "It's not part of the Derby just some friendly competion between two owners, as for Funny Feet I don't know it might be some private sale or something." I said a little worried. "I thought we where keeping him." I said. Andrew walked down the isle and said "Hey guess what? Where landing in about an hour." He said. I look at Maria "I guess I can talk to dad maybe he can tell me whats up."

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maria
"" oh so like my grandfather and my dad they bet on everything and anything dealing wiht horses" she said as ray told her whaty was going on. as andrew walked back to them letting them know they would be landing in an hour " thenks for letting us know andrew"" maria sai dwith a msile before turning back to ray and jeff "yah seeing wha tthe whole thing about funny feet might be a good idea"

[Man O' War Lover]

I smile at Maria "I just hope he does not buy him, I like Funny Feet he's a favriot." Jeef sat back in his seat "Why don't you guys take a nap or something?" He asked closing his eyes. I look at him then at Maria "Does your grandfather have anything entered in some upcoming races?" I asked-

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Maria
" since I'm riding another horse in the derby he's having me ride blissful escape in the tiria the female version of the triple crown" she smiled blissful was the top filly with amazing bloodlines that she handpicked herself. Blissful would be hers after she took over the family farm. She laid her head on rays shoulder growing tired

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"But arnt you riding Dancing Image in the Kentucky Oaks thats the first race of the Tira Triple Crown?" Jeff asked confused "Or are you riding her in that next year if she's two right now?" I warped an arm around Marias waist and look at Jeff. "Hey she's trying to go to sleep." He frowned and said "Well okay I got to go talk to Sammy anyway." Getting up he left I sat there quietly-

(sorry about that I totaly forgot that the Oaks was the first leg of the Tira Triple Crown Maria does not have to ride Image if you don't want her to I think it would probably be better if she rode Blissful anyway) Sorry about that-

[redhead14]

( are you sure but isn't the breeders cup around the same time or another major race?)

[Man O' War Lover]

(Well there is the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes it's $500,000 purse, for three year olds and up. I think it's run a day after the Oaks but since this is a role play it can be run on the same day? How does that sound it's 1 1/8 miles?)

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