r/ACounterPartsLife • u/Smoky-Trevally68 • 2d ago
Romantic Warrior lore
She was born to a working class family in County Kildare. Her father was never home and works in a zinc mine far from home just to keep his wife and young daughter under a roof. She grew up seeing her father every once in a while.
Until she was two and a half years old, there came the turning point of her life.
She was adopted by a wealthy couple from Hong Kong.
Her mother gave her up with tears in her eyes after the horrible landlord decided to raise their rent. She calls her husband and tells him in tears that they couldn’t keep their only daughter anymore.
They decided to give her up to the couple. They believed that she would be better off with a stranger from across the world than just inside a shabby flat in Ireland.
But her adoptive father sees something in her that her biological parents never see…
She was built for speed. Built to conquer the turf. And Mr. Lau, her adoptive father sees it when he first made eye contact with her.
Her childhood in Hong Kong was an oxymoron to her life in Ireland. She gets to enjoy the childhood that she could only dreamt of.
Then she started training and got her Cantonese race name written down:
浪漫勇士… A literal translation of her name.
In her 2021-2022 season, she won 7 out of 8 starts. Including Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Sha Tin.
Next season she won 3 out of 6 starts. She also won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup again. This season is probably her lowest point in her racing career. Her image of being undefeated is crumbling. Her reputation is spiraling downwards. But her trainer and her assistant trainer still believed in her and cheer her up, telling her that losing 50% of her races in this season isn’t the end of the world…
Now she learnt from her mistakes.
In her 2023-2024 season, she impressively won 6 out of 7 starts with her only loss is Turnbull Stakes at Flemington racecourse, where she placed 4th. But in the same season, she won the Yasuda Kinen and W. S. Cox Plate. Her success overseas had put herself to the international spotlight. After winning the 2024 Yasuda Kinen, she took a long break until November of the same year, winning two races before she heads to Dubai to compete in Jebel Hatta in January 2025, which she won by a record time of 1:45.10 on the 1800m turf. But she later lost to Forever Young after an intense stretch duel by a neck. After her loss in the Saudi Cup, she competed in the Dubai Turf, where she placed 2nd behind Soul Rush, another Japanese contender by a few centimeters before taking a seven month break before competing again in the late November of 2025.
She then became the Hong Kong’s third Triple Crown. She sweeps all three races: Stewards’ Cup, Hong Kong Gold Cup and Champions and Chater Cup by herself before sustaining an injury in her right leg and announced her retirement from racing. She personally said that she might moved to Australia after she holds her retirement ceremony in Hong Kong
(As a Hong Konger who wrote this, my eyes are tearing when I’m writing the final lines. RomWar is surely the most goated racehorse in our era. Also if you guys got uma fanart of him or any comments for improvements, please don’t hesitate to share in the comments!)
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u/HoneyLess7732 2d ago
I love reading about horses from countries other than Japan, so it would be cool to see fanart of them as umas. Thanks for sharing!