Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2022 16:50:09 GMT
Smart Odds
The Basics
Registered Name: Taboo
Year of Birth: Y12
Height: 16.0hh
Color: Grey Roan
Gender: Mare
Sire: HoF Everyday Hero
Dam: BHoF Forbidden Wings
Well... Amber Black never said Taboo was sane during the sale that ultimately had Witch Creek Stable ending up with the Everyday Hero filly. The bay roan is as beautiful as any horse that has come through the barn doors of Witch Creek. Beautiful and not always there are two descriptions often used to describe Taboo. Ninety-nine percent of the time she is distant and dreamy, content in her own little world and not often listening to the instructions of her human handlers. The other one percent of the time Taboo is well... sinful. She'll bite and crowd her humans. She'll kick her door until the wood begins to chip away in sharp shards. She'll scream when left alone and dance through her pasture like a phantom haunting Witch Creek Stable. It is as though Taboo molds herself to her environment, becomes one with it and picks up the atmosphere faster than the emotions of the humans and horses around her. The filly is neurotic at times, spooking at shadows or things that aren't there at all. Her nature is not agreeable to training half of the time as though she has better things to do. If given the opportunity to escape work, Taboo will take full advantage of it. She'll sprint away on those snappy legs of hers, running herself so into the ground that to work her would almost be cruel. However, the filly is frighteningly fast if someone actually manages to catch her and put her on the racetrack. She simply glides as though she were floating over a lake instead of running over a hard dirt track. It does not matter the gait or environment, Taboo is nearly perfect every single ride with perfect smoothness. She gets washed out in the paddock, but unlike most horses, Taboo does not leave her race behind or before the race. Her ears are stuffed with cotton no matter if it is a simple workout or a major race. She becomes extremely fractious and dangerous to herself and others without the calming cotton. Once in the post parade, Taboo moves like liquid silver, charming the people watching her in person with her perfected gait and smooth going. Bettors will go to the window in order to lay something down on the mysterious filly and she will not let them down. In the starting gate, Taboo enters a whole other zone, completely different from the one she is in during the paddock. She focuses so sharply on the horses around her that it seems she is almost analyzing like her human jockey. The jockey, however, is not too much of a necessity. Taboo will break like a rocket and then suddenly drop back as if she has run into a wall until she has but a few horses beaten. The roan filly will either settle on the rail or just off of the rail for most of the race, taking suggestions from the jockey based on the pace scenario. As they enter the far turn, however, the jockey becomes a burr on the back of a flying horse. Taboo will drop inside or swing to the outside and take off as though her hooves have wings. She does not take prisoners as she runs her competition into the ground, flying until she has them all beaten by the top of the homestretch. Unlike most horses though, Taboo does not hold back in the stretch. The bay roan continues like a freight train, adding on to whatever lead she has created. There is no modesty in the mind of this fragile, neurotic filly. For her humans, her frightening speed and brilliance more than make up for whatever problems she causes in the barn.
Racing Information
Class: Grade 1
Preferences:
Leg Type: 6-10F Dual
Race Record: 54-19-17-15
Racing Achievements:
Y16 Encouragement Award
Breeding Information
Availability: Private
Number Of Foals: 2
Progeny:
- Banshee, by HoF Demonic Desires (G3)
- Shaman, by Escape Artist (G5)