another conspiracy...
seriously, this illustrates why so often they can't get top horses together. everything has to be exactly perfect, or someone backs out. it's a shame they couldn't meet last year, when both were doing so well. jack/ass tried to rush rachel back, and she gets defeated. so now she's tarnished and not going to the apple blossom, rather then them telling charles cella that it wasn't in the cards. here's hoping she gets back to where she was last year, and that a confrontation can still occur.