Then Slone got on Sarchedon.

Wildfire always snorted and showed fight at sight of Sage King or Nagger, and the stallion Sarchedon infuriated him because Sarchedon showed fight, too.

Slone started out ahead of Lucy, and then they raced down the long pass.

The course was hard-packed sand.

Fast as Sarchedon was, and matchless as a horseman as was Slone, the race was over almost as soon as it began.
Wildfire ran indeed like fire before the wind.