Five Alive Research Paper

Paige Burton
January 17, 2018
Comp. 2 4th hour
Narrative Essay
Five Alive A horse is never truly broken. Five Alive was the name of Milton Vondy and his family’s best race horse. This family didn’t believe that this horse would ever be the best they would ever own in the beginning. Soon this family will see this horse’s true potential, but not without a few bumps along the way (G. Vondy). Milton wakes up on a cool calm spring morning. He goes out to the barn to feed and water the horses in the pasture. When he arrives he sees a new born baby colt in the barn standing next to his mom. This was a beautiful and healthy male colt. Milton bred this horse to be a race horse, and he already had hopes for the little guy. This horse would be
A field of ten horses burst out of the gates at full speed. This race is only 440 yards, it is a short one. Five Alive gets right into the lead right away and he does not give it up. He is the first one across the finish line and wins by a length. Milton and the family are ecstatic and race over to the win picture circle. They get their win picture with Five Alive and his jockey and collect their winnings. The whole family was in awe of how fast this horse seemed to be and how easily he won the race. This horse was amazing and the family adored him. He just kept winning all the races they put him in. The jockey who always road Five Alive in every race said that this was a truly amazing horse. He even said that there was this one race and they loaded Five Alive into the gates and he looked down to see that Five was sleeping. Sure enough, he was asleep in the starting gate. The jockey says I was tapping him in the neck and pulling on his ears to try and get him to wake up, and nothing. But when that starting gate opened he sprang out of it like he had not been sleeping at all. Five Alive even won that race. This horse had the biggest heart this family had ever seen. He loved to run more than anything, and that is hard to find in a horse (Burton). They started taking Five Alive to different tracks all over the place. They were so used to him winning that when he finally lost one they did not know what to think. Some of the family began to cry
The family was gathered at Milton and his wife Doris’s house. Everyone was exchanging gifts and having a good time. Then Milton hands everyone an envelope and tells them to open them. Everyone opened the envelope and found money inside along with a picture of Five Alive. Milton had decided to give everyone in the family a chunk of the insurance money from when Five had passed away. Everyone was shocked at this, but Terry Vondy was shocked the most. He started bawling his eyes out. This was the first time he had cried since Five had passed away (T.