Ashes in the Wind
“17 JOHN SPENDS THE next three months working around the stud, repairing fences, painting gates, replacing old water troughs and cleaning every saddle, bridle and bit until they are almost worn away. Charles and he go to look at possible replacements for The Elector, but don’t see anything they like. Charles will consider only a stallion from The Archduke’s bloodline.
‘That two-year-old up in the home paddock might do,’ says Charles. ‘He’s by The Elector out of a good mare, and he looks the part.... But he’ll have to do something on the racecourse first. He’ll go into training next month.’ John continues to ride out most mornings at Paddy Brennan’s yard. He wins another hunter chase and is placed a couple of times on Hunting Cap, but the horse pulls up lame after a race at Naas and is put away for the season.
John wants to forget The Elector; he wants to remember his night with Grania. He gets only a single unsigned postcard from Connemara, a view of the Atlantic and the Cliffs of Moher; on it Grania has written, ‘Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still.’ The words make John happy; he is not sure what the Post Office will make of them.MoreLess
‘That two-year-old up in the home paddock might do,’ says Charles. ‘He’s by The Elector out of a good mare, and he looks the part.... But he’ll have to do something on the racecourse first. He’ll go into training next month.’ John continues to ride out most mornings at Paddy Brennan’s yard. He wins another hunter chase and is placed a couple of times on Hunting Cap, but the horse pulls up lame after a race at Naas and is put away for the season.
John wants to forget The Elector; he wants to remember his night with Grania. He gets only a single unsigned postcard from Connemara, a view of the Atlantic and the Cliffs of Moher; on it Grania has written, ‘Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still.’ The words make John happy; he is not sure what the Post Office will make of them.MoreLess
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