By the end of the first lap Cody and Candy were still only in third place..
By the second lap Cody could hear other teams catching up to them on both sides. This resulted in Hannah whipping her team more frequently. By the middle of the second lap another team pulled ahead of Candy and Cody which caused even more dust to be kicked up into their faces.
Hannah was unrelenting as she whipped her ponies constantly. Cody could hear the stomping of more pony hooves on both sides of them. By the end of the second lap Candy and Cody had fallen to fifth place.
By the middle of the third lap Cody noticed the two lead teams were falling back slightly. Unfortunately one of the teams that passed them was pulling ahead and took first place by the end of the third lap, which still left Cody and Candy in fifth place.
The fourth fifth and sixth laps found all of the lead teams in a cluster just ahead of Hannah, which unfortunately prevented her from passing. However by the sixth lap Cody noticed many of the teams behind them had dropped out of the race.
By the end of the seventh lap Cody and Candy were in last place with only five pony teams left.
By the eighth lap the cluster began to spread out so that the teams could try and get ahead of the others.
Cody and Candy were already to the point of exhaustion. And they were certain the other teams were also physically drained like they were. However Hannah continued whipping her ponies to push them until the end. At the end of the eighth lap two other teams dropped out from exhaustion.
With only three teams left in the race Hannah was able to maneuver her cart into an open spot and began whipping her team harder. At this point Candy and Cody just wanted this to end and no longer cared if they won. They wanted Hannah to stop whipping them and they just wanted to stop running.
At the beginning of the ninth lap Hannah was pulling upto the other two teams. Cody and Candy were no longer forced to eat the dust of the other teams
As their pony boots thundered down the final lap Cody could hear the other teams pounding their hooves on both sides of them.
To Cody’s sudden relief he heard the pony team closest to Candy suddenly stop as one of the ponies collapsed from exhaustion.
As they turned the final bend Cody could hear the other team right beside him. Hannah increased the intensity of her whipping as she drove her team harder. With his blinders on Cody had no idea if they were ahead of the other pony team or if they were going to loose. Cody pulled the cart as fast as he could. His sweat streaming off of him as his sister strained to pull beside him.
The young ponycouple pulled even harder as the finish line grew closer and closer. Cody was too exhausted to notice the man raise the checkered flag as both teams approached the finish line.
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