fandomtownies | The Gig, Monday

It wasn't unusual for Dani to get catalogs at The Gig. She did a fair amount of online shopping from work, especially when she had down time between chores and riding lessons. But it was strange to see her ignoring the Keeneland horse sale catalog that arrived with an invitation and a plane ticket to Kentucky. Dani had taken one look at her father's handwritten instructions to select any of the horses she liked and flinched. This was not an invitation to spend time with her father; it was Ken Davis trying to use her good instincts to pick the best race horses for his barn. And after her father had cut her out of the family business, there was no way that Dani was getting sucked back in.

"Besides, I don't need any more horses," Dani tried to remind herself as she braided red, white and blue ribbons into Smudge's mane. "I left the racing world behind because they totally humiliated me, and I'm not going back, no matter what my dad uses to -- Ow!" She might have tugged a little too hard on Smudge's mane in her anger and got kicked as a result. Time to find something else to distract her from that catalog that wouldn't result in angering any more horses.

The Gig was open!