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Dropping. Out to help a friend o3o

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marking to watch! this bab is beautiful!

[Astraela]

Marking for now.

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█ He communicates with chimes/chirps/beeps.
█ Derpy and clumsy, but Keith still adores him.
█ Skrat frequently messes with objects he finds
█ no matter whos they are. If it looks fun, he'll
█ probably have run off with it until he's forced
█ to give it back by Keith. There are however,
█ plenty of objects Skrat has never given back.
█ Things that are shiny (especially silver) often
█ find their way into a pile in his stall till it is
█ cleaned out. Even then, they just go in a box
█ if their owners cannot be found. Sometimes
█ Skrat will break some of the objects that he
█ takes, obviously on accident but more than a
█ replacement for the object is needed, usually
█ an accompanying apology. The replacements
█ can run quite pricy, but I guess money is only
█ an imaginary source of happiness, so to Keith,
█ its worth every penny. The only viscets Skrat
█ really gets to interact with are his opponents.
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.:Ain't nobody on my team but you:.
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Leading Belmont Stakes contender Skrat got a feel for Belmont
Park's main track on a rainy Monday morning, the Preakness
winner's first excursion over the surface since his arrival from
Pimlico Sunday afternoon.

Overseen at Belmont Park by Peedy Desormeaux' assistant trainer
Julie Clark, the probable favorite for the Grade 1, $1.5 million
Belmont Stakes left Barn 29 during a welcome - albeit brief -
respite from the rain shortly before the renovation break. Skrat
walked through the paddock and grandstand tunnel to the main
track and, with rider and owner Keith Landry aboard, tapped an
easy lap around the 1 ½-mile oval.

"He was really good," said Clark. "The track is so big, it kind of
looks like they're going slower than they are, but he went in a
nice good pace. Not fast, not slow, just right in the middle. He
seemed to handle it well. He came back barely blowing and then
I passed him off to his groom Vic [Vargas] and made Vic walk him
because he was a handful, like he always is."

Clark said she timed Skrat in 20-second furlongs through much of
the run before he gathered momentum through the final few.

"He went a couple in 18, 19 seconds," she said. "He picked
it up towards the end but he was just off of a two-minute
clip, which is what we like. We don't want him going too
fast. It certainly was easy."

The flashy colt is expected to return to the track Tuesday morning
for light training and is tentatively slated to have his final breeze
for the Belmont on either Saturday or Tuesday, said Clark.

"He's either going to flutter two [miles] or two-minute clip [a mile]
tomorrow, Keith's waiting to make that decision," she said.
"He might work on Saturday, or he may do a two-minute clip
Saturday and breeze Tuesday. He's had a pretty easy week since
the Preakness, plus Keith wanted to see how handled the track,
especially going a little further."

Expected to face Skrat in the 148th running of the Belmont Stakes
are trainees Bisonte and Flicka, a pair from the Lenivan barn
in Destin; as well as France, Grade 2 Peter Pan runner-up Uchenna,
Arkansas and Kentucky Derby winner Riley, and Ohio winner Viper.

Uchenna, who arrived for Desormeaux on Sunday, is joined at
Belmont by Skrat, a four-time runner-up to Viper,
including a late-closing second behind the
eventual 3-year champion in the 2015 Breeders' Cup
Juvenile as well as both Ohio and Nevada Derby.

"It was funny coming out of that race, everyone was still
asking about Bisonte [fourth in the Juvenile Tourny] and
we had another one that finished even better,"
Levinan joked. "Skrat, He's always been a little under
the radar, finishing second to Viper all the time. Now,
I think people realize that that was such a tough viscet
to try to beat all the time for Skrat."

The speedy viscet will be based at Belmont while he
prepares for another return to the races, having suffered
breathing issues off a five-month layoff in his lone
3-year-old start at Keeneland this spring, when he finished
sixth in the Grade 3 Lexington on April 16.

"That's what happened in the Lexington," said Clark.
"Keith thought he had heard a little something after the
race and he got him checked out and got that problem
addressed. He had to take some breaks and he walked for
30 days but he's been back to the track for about a week
now and he's been great. He looks really good and feels
good. I've always liked him, he's one of my favorites.
I'm happy to have him back."

Skrat could return to the worktab as early as
Saturday, which would be his first official
breeze since April, although Clark adds that
there is no time table for his comeback.

"Keith's looked at a whole bunch of things, but he's going
to let the viscet tell him," she said. "He doesn't want to rush him."

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One of the best things about Skrat's relationship with Keith is that the two of them really are far from the same individual, which means they each have their own strengths and weaknesses, and each will approach situations differently.

A facet of Skrat's personality thats always found notable and quite contrasting from Keith is that this viscet has caution without timidity. By that I mean he's sometimes the practical one who does not bowl emotions-first into a situation; Keith however makes the assessments about dangers before they engage in anything. Whenever Skrat meets a stranger, he is suspicious first and friendly second. Even when Skrat accepted the first food Keith offered him, he crept up very slowly and carefully to the young human; however, Keith is the one to discourage Skrat from doing wildly dangerous stunts and running face first into certain harm. Skrat has a healthy sense of “fear”, but recklessly doesn't let that stop him from having fun.

This makes Skrat none the less courageous. He and Keith both grow in the same regard here: he embraces the viscets personality such that he stands up in hazardous situations when he knows he can do something about them. If someone were to show aggression towards Keith, Skrat would step up and bare his teeth if he gauges his strength as much stronger (Which usually it is, seeing how strong viscets can be). That is an enormous sense of bravery and responsibility.

These acts of bravery hinge upon some selflessness and loyalty. Skrat often acts in the interests of others where it really matters; he shows as a competitive racing opponent not out of personal desires, but to work with Keith and match his determination for winning. Skrat then is extraordinarily loyal to Keith without following him blindly. He is typically very cooperative and willing to go with Keith’s ideas unless he disagrees with them… in which case he will do things like try to spin other trainers off his back in a chaotic frenzy when they attempt to mount him.

Skrat also has a playful side to him, even more so than the typical viscet. He is that sort of viscet who might seem really stiff, quiet, and unapproachable when you first meet him (such as when Keith first encountered him where he was just outright mysterious and unpredictable), but once you come to know him, he’s incredibly open and cheery and capable of just going out, having fun, or being silly. Playfulness and curiosity leads him to do things like draw pictures in the dirt with his claws alongside Keith before the gates open at the start of a race.

And yes, he is curious, a unique trait to add alongside his practical caution. Skrat walks into town and shoves his nose straight into baskets… amongst other things. He will get his nose into things.

The last thing to say is he is quite intelligent. He figures out how to escape ties in the stable, to take even just one example.

So there’s a small outline of some traits Skrat has. He is loyal, bold, curious but cautious, intelligent, with a healthy sense of self neither cocky nor deprecating, peace-loving but willing to fight in the need, brave, responsible, playful to those he trusts, and in those moments, quite silly.
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