Pony Tales
by Sandra Murphy
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I have a granddaughter who is she has told me about. I watch her
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in love with ponies. She loves all pat her leg and say “good Brutis”
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sizes, all kinds, all colors and all to the brown one. The best is when
temperaments. She gallops across she hugs her pillow really tight and
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the backyard jumping anything that says good night to “Freckles”, her

is in her way and she had learned to beloved imaginary dapple grey with
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the long white mane and tail.
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best of the little beasts. When she
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sleeps over at my house she is up I indulge this child and her yard full
of imaginary ponies. I sit by the hour
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at the crack of dawn just to make
sure her imaginary ponies have been and tell her how well she just jumped
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fed their imaginary breakfast. Every that Olympic oxer, although to me
Saturday morning I am wake up to it looks like my ordinary lawn chair
the sounds of ponies in my back yard. turned on its side. I buy her pink
and blue ribbons for their manes, strong warmblood horses over jumps
She is 7 years old and knows that sparkly nail polish for their hooves higher than myself. I do this because
she can ride in the Olympics with and every pony book I can find for I really believe, if I really believe in
the best of them and I am sure she her to read. what she really believes, then her
dreams about it every night. The beliefs will become a reality…a pony
reason I know this is because I hear I do this because, in my imaginary of her own to start the climb to the
her talking to “Daisy”, the white one world, I am watching her ride big, top.
Junior News by Whitney Coleman
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On May 5th, as the sun was setting it was going to be like, the content,
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over the Pacific, I had the good the artwork, the plans for the future,
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fortune to get a fantastic seat in and then the question, “Hey Whitney,
the nearly sold out stands for the how about you write a column for me
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$100,000.00 Grand Prix at the and talk about juniors and the issues
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My new friend (free seat) was a junior year why don’t you write about what they were getting themselves
charismatic, energetic lady named it for the magazine?” What was I into when they watched me ride my
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Kathy Hobstetter who was taking going to say to my gracious hostess bicycle around the neighborhood
photos of the competition for a new but yes? My thoughts were reeling. pretending I was on a horse!
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magazine. Wow, a new magazine, I “Great” she said, “Have it to me by
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thought, that is really ambitious. Wednesday.” Once a week lessons soon became
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twice a week, and then the leased
As the Grand Prix progressed we Like lots of little girls, I have always horse, then the horseshows and
chatted about a lot of things, mostly loved horses. When I was seven soon my parents were on the joyful
horse related and had a great time years old, my parents gave me a riding road to horse ownership. Over the
watching the horse and rider teams helmet, gloves, britches, and paddock years I have had the opportunity to
step up to the challenging course. boots for Christmas. Since the gift did have excellent teachers and good
The conversation turned to the not include a horse, I put the whole ponies and horses. During my years
new magazine, ShowBiz, and what outfit on and rode my bicycle. I am at Elvenstar, I went to Pony Finals in
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