by buckskin. » Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:33 pm
Feeling that he had thought that she meant that he was going to ride her, the teenager quickly shook her head "No..um, she's retired." the words floated out her mouth quickly "We...I mean, me and one of the other riders who board her, decided to go to a horse sale a couple of weeks ago just for a look and we found her, Al was kind enough to buy her for us. We figured that she might as well know kindness for however long she has left, I like to come out and spend a little bit of time with her each day I come to see Herc." she explained the situation as best as she could, they didn't know much about the history of the horse but from what they did know, the old grey hadn't had the best run in life after her racing career ended after a mere four years. From what they could gather, for almost twenty years after being retired from racing, she was bred year after year to produce prize-winning offspring and many of which were. But once she became too weak to breed again, was thrown into the sale yards most likely to go to slaughter but lucky for her, Epiphany didn't end up like so many others.