Thursday, November 22, 2012

Last summary

The race is starting, it's a foggy day. There's a struggle going on at Becher's; a horse has fallen and was being got out with ropes. Mi's legs turn to water. He runs to the front to see what is happening. The horse that has fallen is a black horse. There is a shout and another horse falls down with a rider riding on it. Two more horses come back out of the mist, one riderless. Nineteen horses has streamed down to the Canal Turn, and suddenly, at the boundary, four horses appear beyond Valentine's, and among them, fourth is the Piebald without Velvet. 

Mi is looking for Velvet everywhere but he cannot find her. The Associated Press in New York men sends a message to every place in Liverpool that the Piebald wins the race and Mi is taking care of him at Aintree. Velvet is now at Liverpool Central Hospital, they found her unconscious. When she wakes up, doctors ask her some questions, but she refuses to reveal her identity. She just tell them that she falls down the horse while riding and unconscious.

Soon, the news spread everywhere that a girl has won the Grand National but no one knows her name except Mi, the nurse is taking care of her. The resident M.O comes to the hospital to see Velvet. He asks questions about her and the Piebald. But she doesn't want tell her name to him and doctors but they can guess that she is about fourteen to sixteen years old. At home, Mr and Mrs Brown recognizes their daughter on the TV. The reporters tell them that she is the Liverpool Central Hospital, they also said that she slipped off her horse and fainted. They immediately get to Liverpool and take her home, Mi is at home waiting for her. The Piebald has been disqualified but they'll dare to drop them him out altogether. 

The next morning, the Browns wake up as usual, they find out that there's a crowd of people, including the reporters waiting to see Velvet. But the Browns don't want to meet them. Some people even send gifts to her. Some guys wants to be her boyfriend and propose her, she's now popular at school. Tomorrow Velvet and Mi are going to meet the National Hunt Committee. In an upper room in 15 Cavendish Square, round a board table, the board has assembled. They are summarized what happened at the Grand National. Then they call Velvet upstairs, they ask her a few questions about herself, the Piebald and family. One of them know Mrs. Brown as a swimmer of the Channel. She said that Mi helped her everything. She also said that she didn't want to join the Grand National, it was just for fun because she saw Piebald jump lovely so she decided to make him famous and this is Mi idea. They ask her to call Mi. They ask him some questions but finally he refuses to take the prize money and the cup because he likes to stay poor and help the Brown. From now on, people from every where in Europe and America call her National Velvet.





No comments:

Post a Comment