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Username: finny.
Name of Horse: My Fair Lady "Lady"
Breed of Horse: 75% Tennessee Walking Horse, 12.5% Mustang, 12.5% Appaloosa
Horse Page Link: HereCourse Entering: The Beach Course
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Lady trotted out of the trailer, her long mane flowing in the Irish wind. Lady whinnied allowed to Erial her owner to come. Erial got out of the drivers seat of the truck that drove the trailer. She saw lady at the door of the trailer and she sighed.
"Lady, you can't be stubborn. It is not nice." Erial raised her finger pointing at lady as she said so. Lady walked forward and stood before Erial, the halter in range for Erial to clip on the leash like rope. She clipped it on and led Lady to the barn where she would keep Lady before and after the race. The sky started to darken, she tied the halter rope to a brushing station at the front of the barn. She picked up a medium sized brush and started by her rump and worked her way up to her mane. She picked up a different brush, and started to brush out her hair. Erial untied the knot and let Lady walk herself into her stall. She usually let Lady pick out her own stall for she "Always knew best". She un buckled the buckles on Lady's halter and hung it outside the stall on a hook. Erial pet Lady on the nose before heading back to the farmhouse near the stable. Lady laid down in the grass a warm spring gust reaching her face and pelt before lulling her to sleep.
Erial woke up to the birds lightly chirping outside her window, surprisingly the sky was darker than yesterday's sun and blue skies. Erial quickly got dressed in her Competition wear and went downstairs through the house and out to the barn. She tried to be quiet while crossing the gravel pathway, for she knew the owners and other residents in the house were most likely still asleep. She tried pushing open the big wooden doors quietly, but, quickly the squeaked and squealed to life. They then lightly bumped the grey cobblestone walls and made a loud bombing into the barn. Lady awoke with surprise to the commotion and looked toward Erial with a tired and mad stare. Erial walked on her tiptoes over to her stall and unlatched the door. She slipped on Lad's halter and rope and lead her over to be tacked up. She laid on the English saddle and blanket and climbed on top of her. Putting her heels in the stirrups, she rode Lady out into the fresh Irish air.
The ride was memorable, Lady was a bit slow, but that was normal for her when she was on a new terrain and a new place. Erial knew she had enjoyed it, they had seen some deer and at least five or six rabbits here and there. She missed her home in Sunriver, Oregon but, this made it feel like home. She cantered Lady back to the Farmhouse, letting her graze here and there. Erial heard the sizzle of a pan in the house and knew the Mistress of the house must be cooking. She quickly took off Lady's blanket and saddle, and lead Lady back into her stall.
"Take a rest Lady, you have a big day, I will come get you later." she whispered before she walked toward the house. Lady was so new to her, she had only owned her for a few months and already she was taking a race with her in Ireland. The years were going by so fast, too fast for her.
With authentic "American" pancakes and bacon in her Erial got ready for the competition. She put on mascara and eyeliner and put on her best competition clothes. She tied back her bouncy hair into a bun and smiled in the mirror.
"I can win this!" she said to herself, she almost leaped down the stairs. She watched through the window as the other competitors started to trot or gallop by on the path she had taken earlier with Lady. She looked at the clock on the wall and noticed that the race would start in thirty minutes. She dashed out the door, running full sprint to the stalls. She again put the halter on, braiding Lady's hair into diamond shapes and then did a fishtail braid in her tail. She hypothesized she must have less than twenty minutes, and ten if she wanted to take a longer time to trot to the starting line. She laid Lady's special tack on her arm and carefully buckled the belly buckle so that it was not too tight for Lady. Lady seemed weirdly calm, she was usually kicking or bucking when she got everything on.
"So I see you have discovered the calm before the storm?" she asked laughing at what she said. She stepped up on Lady and rode her to the pathway before galloping off.
Erial slowed down lady one they go to the starting point. She would start in ten minutes, she watched at the starting line as another horse went across it. She then looked over at all of the other horses, some looking tired and beat from earlier runs, and other proudly waiting for their turn. She guided Lady to the starting line, a plump man came up beside her horse, his grayish red receding hairline easy to see.
"Miss, you name, horse name, and number?" he asked tapping his pen to his clipboard. Erial looked down and smiled.
"Erial Henn, My Fair Lady, #16" Erial responded, she nodded as the gentleman checked something off and pointed his pen to the starting line. She walked Lady forward and made her stop at the starting line. She felt a tension in her shoulders and knees. She took a deep breath and looked around at the scenery, people gathered behind canvas tarp walls to watch, the sky was still gloomy and cloudy, but, when she looked infront of her she could see the beautiful cliffs and rolling waves, her guess would be she would be going under the cliffs, but she could not say for sure. She heard a one bell chime, and she got ready, two bells rang out louder, than she was off at the three bell chime, all of the spectator clapping and screaming good luck as they did to the others.
She rode hard into the first few seconds, Lady's long hair seemed to flow like rivers behind her. She leaned down for speed keeping her legs still. She could see the first jump ahead, already a double jump. She patted Lady on her neck and whispered,
"Come on girl, you can do it!" She got ready for the jump, the space between her and the jump becoming closer. Lady jumped gracefully over the first jump, she almost missed it her hooves coming in close behind the wall. She breathed out thanking Lady for clearing it. The second jump came into view and she knew she could do it, she looked at it and smiled brightly, they cleared the new one more easily than the first. She could see that Lady was working as hard as she could. The next two were the same, an easy clear. Lady started to breath heavily, she had been running hard for it seemed like three or four minutes. That is when Erial saw the bank jump, that was one Lady had a hard time with, she usually would clear the first but would have to walk up the others. Lady ran harder pushing herself to go up, she made it up the first two. The third she had to slow down on, she made it slower up and had to try and regain speed after it.
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