Chapter 1

The Birth of A Champion

The sun rose slowly over the American Frontier. The light seemed to shine brightest over the West England Race Stable. The name was quite misleading. It is not located in England. It is called West England Race Stable because every one that worked at it was either from England, did English riding, or had an English accent.

In a stall near the entrance to the main stable, lay a pretty Strawberry Roan mare. Her name was Red Pegasus. Red Pegasus was a World Champion show jumper, who had never lost a competition. Pegasus was laying down on her side in her hay bedding, breathing heavily. A vet was sitting by her side with his equipment assisting the pregnant mare with her birth. The mare's sides heaved as she neighed in pain.

Pegasus gave one final push, and a small palomino filly emerged. Pegasus leaned over and began to lick the small golden form. While she was doing so, a tall bay stallion looked over and smirked proudly at his mate and the small golden bundle-of-joy. The stallion was named Thunder Jumper. Like Red Pegasus, Thunder was a World Champion show jumper who had never lost a competition.

Pegasus finished cleaning the filly, and looked over at Thunder. She walked to him and put her nose to his. Thunder nuzzled his beloved mare, then looked at his daughter. She came up to Thunder and sniffed him. Then, losing interest, walked to her mother's side and began nursing.

When the foal was done, she walked to the corner nearest to her mother and fell asleep. Thunder and Pegasus looked at their daughter, then at each other. "What shall we name her?" asked Pegasus. Thunder thought for a moment. "Stunning Star. Stunner for short." he replied proudly. Pegasus beamed at the name. She walked to her daughter and nuzzled her. "Goodnight my little Stunner. Sweet dreams." she mumbled. Pegasus then lay beside her daughter, and let sleep overcome her as well.

Later that day, Pegasus and Stunner were let into the mares' pasture with all the other mares and foals. Pegasus walked to a group of four mares with Stunner following behind. "Oh Pegasus you made it!! Where's that cute little baby?" said a chestnut mare excitedly. Pegasus moved out of the way to reveal a very curious Stunner. "She's simply gorgeous!!" exclaimed a Blue Roan mare. Pegasus introduced Stunner to the six mares. Bella, a sorrel mare with a stripe going down her nose smiled sweetly. Lady Spring, or Lady, the hyper chestnut mare grinned madly. Honey Bee, or Honey, a dark palomino bowed her head. Blue Berry, the roan, smiled and giggled. Stunner said hello and then ran around chasing a butterfly.

Pegasus and the others just walked a short distance away, and began chatting happily. Stunner was still content to just chase that butterfly down. A short distance away, a group of foals were racing. One filly with a brown coat, four black stockings, a black mane and tail, and a large black patch trailing from her stomach to her back on both sides, noticed Stunner playing on her own. The filly told her friends that she would be a minute, and walked over to where Stunner was.

Stunner stopped her pursuit of the butterfly when she saw a bay paint filly head toward her. "Hello. I'm Dream Arrow, Dreamy for short. Who are you?" the filly asked. "Stunner. Nice to meet you." Stunner replied. Would you like to race with me and my friends?" asked Dreamy. Stunner nodded and followed after Dreamy.

When they arrived at the group of colts and fillies, Dreamy introduced Stunner to the foals. One colt with a black coat, a sorrel mane and tail, a sorrel stripe on his face, and four sorrel stockings named Sir Shadow, or Shadow as he was called, said "hi" with a grin. Storm Blaze, Blaze for short, had a gray coat with a gray mane and tail, a black muzzle, a black stripe on his face, and four black stockings who just stared open-mouthed at Stunner. He was able to mutter a small "hello". Lady Mona, or Mona, was a bay appaloosa with a black blaze and several diamond shaped spots on her rump. She nodded and said a sweet "hi". Then Dreamy looked around and asked,"Where's Oberon? I saw him here a minute ago."

"His mom needed to introduce him to some mare and her filly. I just don't understand moms sometimes." Mona replied." We'll just have to start without him then." Blaze said.

The foals decided that Shadow volunteered to go first. No one wanted to race him since he was the second fastest next to Oberon. Since Stunner was getting impatient, she volunteered. "Ready. Set. GO!!!!" Dreamy shouted. Before anyone could think twice, Stunner and Shadow took off. Shadow stood in first, until Stunner sped up only slightly and pulled ahead about ten feet.

'FINALLY!!!' thought a young colt angrily. The colt looked up to find that his friends had already started the races. He saw Shadow racing with some new filly. A pretty, no gorgeous, filly at that. Her form was perfect. And she was fast. She was ahead of Shadow by about fifteen feet. He walked to his friends.

"Hey Mona. Who's the new one?" asked the buckskin colt. "Oh hey Oberon. That's Stunner. Fast isn't she?" Mona replied. "Stunner huh? She really lives up to her name." replied Oberon. Stunner and Shadow ran in to meet the others. "Hey Stunner. This is Oberon. Oberon, this is Stunner." Dreamy said cheerily. Now that she was up close, Oberon noticed that Stunner had gorgeous pink eyes and a smooth creamy colored mane and tail. Stunner thought that Oberon was quite handsome. What she loved most were his emerald green eyes. "Hi Oberon. Nice to meet you." Stunner said kindly. "Pleasure to meet you too Stunner." Oberon replied.

Just then a somewhat cute gray filly trotted up and said,"Hi Oberon. Wanna come and play tag with me and my friends?"

Oberon scoffed at the filly's flirty tone."No thanks. I've got friends. Bye" Oberon said annoyingly. The filly walked off with a sad expression. "Who was that?" asked Stunner curiously. "Just some filly called Lilac. No worrying about her. She's not worth the affection." Oberon replied. He walked off with Stunner right next to him. Both noticed, but didn't care. They knew they liked each other, but decided to wait until they were old enough.

At the end of the day Stunner thought happily,'I've got the best friends anyone could have. Can my life possibly get any better?'