Summer looked at her rosettes and sighed as she remembered all three races that she had taken part in and won this year. She had agreed with her herd that she would be between homes. Belle had moved to a stable yard, and Darko had been killed by Chase at Summer's first race, when he had raped her!
Chase wasn't exactly a murderer, he had killed Darko in his mare's defence, so the humans spared him, remembering what the evil black horse had done to Summer.
Summer was now about to foal any minute…she paced around her stable, looking for a comfortable spot for her to give birth in.
Every so often, she would turn her head to look at her stomach.
Chase knew that Summer wouldn't want him to bother her when she was foaling, so he contented himself by chatting to his friends.
"You're gonna be a daddy!" One of the geldings teased.
"Do you want a filly? Like my Candice?" A grey gelding asked.
"I'm not really sure…" Chase replied.
"You know what this means, Chase? They're going to get you gelded!" Another gelding laughed. "Or keep you as a stud stallion."
Chase rolled his eyes, but had to laugh aswell.
A moment later, he heard a mare whinnying in pain. Chase just had to go and see Summer.
When Chase arrived at Summer's stable, there lay twin foals; one skewbald, the other was black. Chase guessed that Darko had something to do with the black foal, but he didn't care. Darko was dead.
It turned out that Chase was actually the father of both foals anyway, which pleased him very much.
The vet arrived half an hour later after Morgan had phoned him.
"Yes, both foals are healthy. Here, you have a colt and a filly! As you may know, it is quite rare for a mare to give birth to twin foals, so you are very lucky that she has, and that all three horses are healthy." The vet said.
Morgan was so proud, but not as proud as the family that were nestled in the straw. Chase had been allowed to go into the stable, and was helping Summer to clean the foals.
The colt took an instant liking to his father, and kept headbutting him!
"So does this mean that you're going to give up racing?" Chase asked Summer.
"Not a chance! Once the foals are old enough to be looked after by another mare for a while, I'll go back into training and hopefully into another race." Summer grinned, licking her stallion's ear.
Chase smiled back.
Sherbert poked her head over the divide. "There's someone here to see you, Summer!" She said.
Summer stood up and peered outside her stable door. Outside, there stood Spirit, Rain, her brother called Storm Cloud, Strider and Esperanza.
They all congratulated Summer and Chase, and Storm Cloud seemed very interested in his neice and nephew.
The big, happy family chatted away for ages, and Sherbert, Esmerelda, Golden and River joined in too.
It was the end of a fantastic year, but only the beginning of the next remarkable adventure…
THE END!