Silver Blaze: Home to Roost

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: Silver Blaze: Home to Roost
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: “The trainer, John Straker, is a retired jockey…before he became too heavy for the weighing-chair.”
                                                                                       
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We had our orders – all four of us in the stables. Wait. Wait till one of us was alone with him.

He was our stable-boss now. But in the days when he rode we called him The Whip.

That blow I struck was for every flank he’d cut to bleeding ribbons, every bit he’d yanked. We were avenged at last.

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

A clever twist. And I suppose the fact Straker was willing to harm Silver Blaze and make him lame suggests he might have been willing to harm horses in other ways previously.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Right. Maybe he was known as a "winning" jockey precisely because he abused his mounts to gain that edge.