Post by creativecause on Oct 29, 2014 20:05:05 GMT -5
Worth Fighting For
Chatoyant and Andrew Martin
Tayo blinked at Andrew in a almost annoyed way, and Andrew couldn’t blame him. Tayo was such a good horse and had lost race after race after race to Silent Snap and Sun King, the colt had so much talent but he didn’t have the experience that the others did. Tayo hadn’t deserved the out of money finishes in the Dixanna breeders futurity or the fifth place finish in the Eagle cup. The colt had so much more about him and he wasn’t going to let it happen again. He’d been running all over the other two year olds and older horses including Tears of an Angel last week whom he edged out and beat by a head. This next race was going to be of a completely different level for him. It was going to be against the likes of Sun King, and for Tayo, this race was more personal than ever. Sun King would be going for simply another win, but Tayo, this race meant redemption, it meant another race putting him that much closer to that G3 mark that every other two year old seemed to be reaching. This race was going to be his one way or another even if it ran him into the ground Tayo was going to fight and claw with everything he had for this one. Funny thing no one will get the memo that the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Dirt Sprint was going to come early this year. Andrew blamed himself for some of Tayo’s losses, it was odd that whenever the race actually counted like a HOTY race he always ran a very strong second to Sun King but when it was something like a juvenile face off every month it was Tayo’s turn to take it. It made him look inexperienced, and maybe he was, but he broke his maiden a lot later than most of his fellow juvenile dirt spriners. Tayo splashed into the racing scene, and then faded as fast as he had come onto it. However, this week he was out to prove that his frizette Stakes win was no fluke.
They loaded into the gate without issue and Andrew could feel Tayo begin to tense up and eye the track with laser focus. The gates sprung open and Tayo flew out of them gracefully as a gazelle. He gobbled up the dirt with quick and easy strides, tugging on the reins to try to get Andrew to let him go faster, but Andrew held him back further Tayo was already going quicker than he normally would do. They needed to keep up with Sun King, so they’d been pushing Tayo to go quicker and they’d gotten good results so far. In the end it was gonna be the horse who had the most guts that was going to win this race, and Tayo had a very large supply of it. Tayo bent into the far turn and continued to engulf the track. Soon the stretch opened up before him and he didn’t have to be asked twice, as soon as Andrew told him to go Tayo gave him his all. They flew down the stretch in a frenzied excitement and he finished out the work strong hitting the wire with Andrew and posting what Andrew was sure was a bullet work.
