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 Exercise 8.2
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Use the following information, which is from a story in The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, to write a narrative lead.
The Chandler Ostrich Festival was held Saturday in Chandler, a city in the metropolitan Phoenix area. Your story is being written for the Sunday paper.
The racecourse is 100 yards long.
More than 1,000 spectators attended the festival.
Joe Hedrick of Nickerson, Kan., owns the birds that participated in the festival. The birds weigh as much as 400 pounds each.
Hedrick said that he is one of only two people in the country offering ostrich races to the public. He brought nine birds for the Chandler Festival.
The riders race bareback on the birds. In one race, a bird fell on its rider, another rider fell off his bird and one bird returned to the starting gate.
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Sylvester the ostrich won one race. Before the race he stretched his legs and eyed his opponents.
A yellow flag signaled the start of the race. When the yellow flag fell, Sylvester looked at the spectators and then bolted forward as fast as his long, muscular legs would carry him.
Sylvester has been racing for seven years.
In this race, he took an early lead. He hugged the inside lane and never broke stride.
The race took him only seconds to win. He made it to the finish line 25 yards ahead of the second-place bird.
The Chandler Festival continues from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday. The festivities include a chili cook-off, art auction and jazz performance.
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education