Starting Over Again (Open)

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Ashleigh walked out of the house and towards the barn. When she walked in three whinnies erupted from the stalls. She went to the first one and a bay head came out. It was Ashleigh's Wonder often called Wonder. Ashleigh brought her back to health when she was a sickly foal and they had a bond that was never broken. She patted Wonder's neck and noticed that her feed bucket was empty with a pieces of grain in it. 'Mark must have fed them already.' she thought to herself. She went to the next stall and a roan head nudged her shoulder. "Hey Promise." she said. It was a blue roan mare named Preakness Promise. Her feed bucket was empty also. She went to the next stall and a black head turned towards the stall door from the hay rack. Inside Mark was feeling his legs. "So your the one who fed the horses." Ashleigh said. Mark chuckled. "Yea who else? he joked, I woke up earlier and noticed you were still sleeping. I guess you were tired from the trip back home." he said. Ashleigh smiled. "Yea the honeymoon was relaxing but I was tired from the late night trip." She patted the colts neck. "Is Champion alright?" she asked. Mark got up and patted Champion's neck. "Yea. I was checking their legs from the trip. They all seem to have come through well." he said exiting the stall. He embraced Ashleigh and kissed her lightly. Champion stuck his head out of his stall and nudged each of them. Both Ashleigh and Mark laughed. "Alright we'll get you out." Mark said. "I'll take Champion and you can take either of the fillies." he said. "I'll take Wonder first and then Promise. Once we get some hands we won't have to take two out then the last one." she said. Mark nodded and he got the black colt out and tied him in the crossties. Ashleigh did the same. Wonder nickered glad to be out of her stall.

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Jay Whitten

Finished work at King's Park, Jay had taken an early morning walk up the road a bit, and ended up here, standing in front of a newer property in the weak sunlight that always came after dawn. He'd heard rumours that this place was occupied again, but he'd come to see it for himself. It looked like the rumours were true; he could hear horses in the barn and voices.

Walking closer, he moved towards the barn, wanting to know who had moved in. It was rude to just walk onto someone's property, he knew, but he'd been doing it all morning as he casually looked for a few more horses to ride before trackwork closed and the like. A few more dollars was something he would not pass up, and Tally wasn't likely to dock his pay for riding for another stable every now and then.

Taking a few hesitant steps into the barn, he stopped and looked around. "Hi," he said to the two people he could see in the stall of a small black colt. "Sorry to barge in. My name's Jay, and I'm looking for a bit of work for the morning, if you've got any? I'm an experienced track rider and stablehand, I work for King's Park up the road." There were two other horses in the barn as well, he noticed as he spoke; two fillies, a bay and a blue roan. All three horses looked like they could put out quite a bit of speed when they wanted to. The little bay especially, reminded him a little of Vanquished, who was a force to be reckoned with wherever she was. These newcomers were set to become quite the stable.

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Ashleigh turned to greet the visitor. "Hello, Jay I'm Ashleigh Reese and this is my husband Mark Reese." she said. Mark walked over and shook Jay's hand. Ashleigh went back to working on grooming and tacking up Wonder."You said you were looking for some work this morning right? Well this blue roan filly needs someone to work her. They've been on a long trip coming here and they need to get the kinks out so don't let them run hard, but I still want to see what she can do even if we're not breezing them." Mark said.

Ashleigh finished tacking up Wonder and walked up to Jay. "You should probably introduced. The filly you will be working with is Preakness Promise, but we call her Promise and this one I'm working is Ashleigh's Wonder, but we of course call her Wonder. And the black colt is Preakness Champion." she said.

"The tack is still in the trunk right near the tack room since we didn't get to unload it yet." Mark said. "We'll start when you're ready."

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Jay Whitten

"Sure thing," Jay agreed, suddenly very excited about this chance to ride a horse of actual value. It wasn't every day you got the chance to ride a horse as promising as any of these looked (unless you were Selena, in which case you rode a Hall of Fame inductee every single morning), and King's Park tended to keep him on the second stringers for reasons unknown. Hurrying towards the tack room, he quickly located the trunk holding gear that must belong to the filly, gathering it all up and moving back to her stall.

As he entered the stall, the blue roan filly approached and he offered her a pet on the nose. She looked calm, but he still moved cautiously as he got her ready to go, moving with practised ease. "Alright, ready," he said, glancing at Ashleigh and Mike while giving Promise a pat on the neck.

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Ashleigh smiled at Jay. "Alright lets go!" she said leading Wonder out of the barn. Mark followed with Champion. "We'll race the three of them and stretch their legs. Lets warm them up by cantering them to the starting line." Mark said mounting Champion. Ashleigh followed him mounting Wonder. Both trotted their impatient horses to the track.

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Jay followed the other two out of the barn, Promise in tow, little nose bumping his shoulder as he led her out into the bright morning. He swung himself up into the saddle easily, a move he had been practising for a while now, since it was always a waste of other people's time to be giving him a leg up before every ride when he could just do it himself. Settling himself in the saddle, Jay took up his reins and nudged the blue roan filly into a walk and then a trot, keeping a firm grip on her as she tugged at the reins, longing to get out in front of the other two. "Not yet, Promise," he muttered to her with a smile. This would be fun!

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i'm replying in the practice track.