Welcome To The Crazy Train (Flat, Sym(Maybe))

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[bg=black][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,400,true] Lee & He's A Pirate, Ricky & Freddy Krueger, Chad & Phantom Menace, Trevor & Braveheart, Scott & Banshee, John & Dog Of War, Theresa & Dontfearthereaper, Billy & Parlay, Ethan & A Hero Comes Home, CJ & Neith, Jared & Deirdre No one was sure whos brilliant idea this was, but they all knew one thing was certain they were going to find this person and murder them, slowly and painfully. Lee lead the way onto the track with Will - one of the best behaved - followed closely by Ricky on Freddy who bumped into Will as the young colt bolted forward, bucking out as soon as he’d passed. Will snorted and danced to the side, away from the insanity as even more spilled onto the track. Behind Freddy came his elder sister Phanny, who watched her brothers behavior with ears pinned back against skull and wide eyes. Lee nearly felt sorry for Chad…Nearly. Once they’d entered the track Phanny danced off to the opposite side, and planted her hooves refusing to go forward. Braveheart entered the track with nearly no issues, except for when he neared Freddy. A high pitched squeal ripped through the air as he snuck his head out, sending a sharp nip to the brindle colts rump. ”Damnit! Keep those two separate!” She’d had Phanny between them for a reason. Trevor shot Lee an apologetic look and circled Braveheart off, trotting him in figure eights while the rest of the crazy train entered. Banshee and Scott entered without incident, and the jockey directed the young Die daughter over towards Wills side, watching as Freddy continued to give Ricky a hard time, though the senior Jockey handled it with practiced ease and soon had the colt moving through the paces in zig zags along the track. Commotion from the track entrance caused both Lee and Scott to look, watching as Bitch reared and squealed her temp jockey barely managing to stay on as the filly lunged forward. Lee winced when Bitch clipped the railing, and danced off to the side with ears pinned and eyes wide. ”Whos idea was this?” Scott murmured, shaking his head when Celtic danced beneath him. Lee sighed as she watched the chaos. ”Three guesses.” She replied, patting Will who was merely watching his half siblings and the two Rocket foals make fools of themselves. Almost as though she was signaled, Reaper entered with the bit between her teeth at a dead gallop, zig zagging between siblings as her Jockey Theresa tried unsuccessfully to get the filly under control. Lee groaned and smacked her face with a hand. ”I’m going to kill him.” She growled beneath her breath, urging Will into the increasing chaos after his runaway sister. Scott shook his head, backing Celtic as Freddy came too close to kicking her during one of his many bucks. He looked towards the entrance just as their second Challenger foal entered, Perry. The champagne colt was majorly different from his bay sister. While he enjoyed tormenting those on the ground, the champagne colt seemed to take this chaos in stride. Calmly weaving his way through the daemon foals and out towards where Wallace was - but making sure to steer clear - while the horses continued to file in. Next to enter was Ethan and Hero, who pinned her ears back and snorted as her Jockey urged her into the chaos. However he was not careful enough, causing the buckskin filly to be clipped by Phanny when she decided to buck. Hero squealed and danced to the side, a slight limp noticeable. ”Damnit. ETHAN Stop her!” Scott called over the chaos, and urged Banshee forth. He didn’t get far however when Neith entered, ears pinned back against skull and neck arched. He nearly felt sorry for the jockey upon that Die foals back. ”Take her away from the chaos, now.” He ordered, watching the jockey foolishly brush her with the crop. Neith lunged forth and charged through her siblings, heading out into the open track with wild eyes. ”I didn’t say hit her!” He cried after the moron, watching as he pulled back on the fillys reins. Lee had managed to calm Reaper by then and groaned. ”I’m surrounded by idiots.” The final horse entered the track then and Lee watched as the jockey maneuvered her through the fray and off to the side, away from everyone else. Thank god someone had some sense.

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Devil I Am & Josh Passit, Rocket Away & Austin Smith, Conquistador & Sarah Mutain, Evil Essence & Sam Foxcrand, Light The Fuse & Derek Meyers, Always A Challenge & Freddy Kranz, Rogue Wind & Nick Lowe, Everybody Says & Karrie Teffen

"Whose idea was this again?" asked Freddy as they rode out of the barn. The line of horses behind them was impressive, and it was only part of Flat Creek. This small sampling was just the sons and daughters of Rocket and Ferndale's stallion Daemon, both sides of what could be considered the biggest rivalry of all time, above all other greats that battled it out time after time. The two turf distance stallions had run each other into the ground time after time, fighting for the win. Josh turned from his spot on Devi's back, slowly, keeping an eye on the four year colt. "Well, let's see, John put out an add for a new excerise rider and possibly - if they're good enough, jockey. We had three people apply and John and Lynn decided that they wanted to test them in a big group, so here we are, with all the foals of Rocket and Die in one area."

Freddy rolled his eyes, amazed at the stupidity of the idea. Why hadn't John and Lynn tested these newbies on quieter horses? Sure, the three they were on weren't the worst behaved of the bunch, but they were hot blooded and high quality horses. There were plenty of horses that weren't so well bred that Derek, Nick, and Karrie could have been tested on. And why, just why, had they sent out Dev? The colt's reputation had gotten worse after that incident with Marc (who had been fired because of the incident) that had ended up with champion Constellation retired due to his injury.

As the horses stepped out on the track, all the riders noticed another large grouping of horses. "Ferndale horses," commented Sarah. "Lee and Ricky are there, looks like they have the whole crew out riding today."

Josh nodded, the said, "Wait here, I'm going to go talk to them, see what's going on." He then proceeded to walk Dev closer to the Ferndale group, though stopping far enough away Dev couldn't harm any other horses. The blue roan had his ears pinned and was obivously unhappy at being around the others, but was so far behaving decently. "Hey, Lee, Ricky," he called, addressing the two that he knew would be in charge. "What do you have going on? Seems like the whole crew's out and it's grown."

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[bg=black][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,400,true] Lee & He's A Pirate, Ricky & Freddy Krueger, Chad & Phantom Menace, Trevor & Braveheart, Scott & Banshee, John & Dog Of War, Theresa & Dontfearthereaper, Billy & Parlay, Ethan & A Hero Comes Home, CJ & Neith, Jared & Deirdre Ricky was the first to notice the new group of horses entering the track, luckily theirs had moved down - with some difficulty - the track and away from the entrance. He noticed Dev, and raked his eyes over the other horses, groaning. More Die and Rocket foals. ”Lee.” He called, and when she turned he nodded towards the group - from which Dev and Josh were departing - and she nodded. Once the duo reached them she offered him a nod, smirking and glancing behind them briefly before turning back. ”Mikes Idea. Remind me to castrate him. He wanted the younger ones trained in a group, and since Freddy is horrible he suggested we take out Die and Rockets foals.” Because apparently the high bred horses were worth risking. Ricky rolled his eyes at that and turned Freddy around when Dog of War came too close to Phanny. ”I’m gonna keep them going.” He commented, nudging Freddy into the fray, squeezing between Hero and Wallace. Lee had nodded in agreement to Ricky before he headed off, knowing the senior jockey was more than capable of keeping everything under control. Hero was sent out to her, her jockey leading the young mare instead of riding. ”Scott says its just a bruise.” Ethan informed her, and Lee glanced down at the man. ”Well we’re not risking it. Take her home and have the vet check her.” Ethan nodded and lead Hero off. Lee turned towards Josh once more. ”Idiot there let Hero get kicked by Phantom menace.” She explained. Kicked in the leg at that. ”So what are y’all doing?” She nodded back towards his group, it seemed to be at least some if not all the Die and Rocket foals as well.

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Selena Hassen and Vanquished, Tallianna Cremer and Eidolon, Jay Whitten and Conquer the East, Darren Montejano and Forceful

Tally had to wonder if she was crazy as the four horses moved out to the track, but she also knew this would be an interesting exercise. The two extremely competitive daughters of Autumn Fun pitted against each other, with two of their half-siblings thrown in for good measure. It was all for Eidolon's sake; in her first start, the filly had chosen to mess around at the back of the field and fight her rider rather than run the way everyone knew she could, and knowing Echo the same thing would keep happening until they figured her out. This morning the filly seemed relatively focused, taking Vanquished on in a walking race that the chestnut was losing only because of her short legs, which she was not happy about. Arrow seemed to be the only calm one of the crowd, taking everything in his stride while Forceful literally bounced off the walls at the back of the pack with Darren, not at all happy about having a rider he couldn't easily dump.

Tally couldn't help swearing when she saw the track though; it was full to bursting and chaos was threatening to erupt everywhere they looked. Not far in front of them, she recognised the colours of both Flat Creek and Ferndale, in two huge groups of horses behaving just as badly as Oscar behind her. "Stay here for a minute," she instructed the other three once they were out of the way of the gap, letting Eidolon move into a trot as she approached the gathering of trainers in the middle of the mess. "Morning," she called to the three of them. "What's the deal with all this madness?"

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Josh was about to reply to the Ferndale riders when he heard more hoof beats and looked back. Four more horses were walking onto the track, Kings Park horses. Vanquished and the two year old filly Eidolon were in the lead, with Conquer the East and Forceful in the back. All Challenger foals, he realized with a smile. As he watched, Tally seemed to mirror his previous actions, splitting off from the group to come find out what was going on. 

"Is Hero alright?" he asked first, after his initial confusion over then name, then realizing they weren't talking about the Flat Creek Hero. "Hey, Tally," he added once the Kings Park owner rode up. "We've got some potential riders were testing. What are you all doing out here? And why do we all have all of our Challenger and Daemon foals out here?"

It was rather ironic that all the horses on the track were sons or daughters of Rocket and Die. 

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[bg=black][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,400,true] Lee & He's A Pirate, Ricky & Freddy Krueger, Chad & Phantom Menace, Trevor & Braveheart, Scott & Banshee, John & Dog Of War, Theresa & Dontfearthereaper, Billy & Parlay, Ethan & A Hero Comes Home, CJ & Neith, Jared & Deirdre The sounds of more hooves joining the fray caused Lee to turn and look as Ricky lead their group further away, in hopes of avoiding injury to the growing masses. As Tally approached she glanced towards Josh when she spoke and nodded. ”Hopefully, it didn’t seem like a hard kick but it was to a leg. I’d rather not risk it.” She replied, nodding as Tally reached them. ”Hey Tally.” A nod was offered along with greet, smirking when Josh answered. ”Apparently it’s training day. Mike wanted to work the two year olds in a group and he decided to send the most aggressive out with them.” she shrugged, glancing behind when she heard Ricky yelling at someone. Just as she turned she caught sight of Neith bolting towards them with her jockey being dragged along behind her. Groaning she urged Will into the bays path and swiftly grabbed her reins with practiced ease, slowing both horses down and stopping. ”What happened?” She hissed towards Scott as he came galloping up on Banshee. ”He smacked Neith with the crop again and she reared, his foot got caught in the stirrup.” All while Scott had been talking he’d been dismounting from Banshee who pressed her chest to Wills rump and stood there, eying the other horses and people.

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