Dear ShowBiz, FROM OUR READERS
Dear Editor,
Dear Kathy,
Where can I get in contact with Jennifer Muncy?
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howbiz Her photographs are breathtaking, I’d like to see
I just picked up a copy of the magazine at Menlo.
West Coast
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what photos she has for sale and look through her
The magazine dedicated to hunters and jumpers in the West July / August 2008
THANK YOU for doing coverage in the north!
portfolio. Glad to have her with your magazine,
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It is a beautiful magazine and I am glad to have it
her quality is right in keeping with what the
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in Northern California. If there is anything I can
ShowBiz magazine has demonstrated so far.
do to help distribute it up here, please let me know.
This magazine is exceptional and well needed.
Cheryl Greenberg
S Moorpark, California
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Karen Julience
year of the olympics!
Portola, California
- West Coast based Will Simpson heads to Beijing
- Gail Morey - ShowBiz Featured Amateur Dear Editor,
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- Menlo Charity Horse Show
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Thank you for doing the tribute article on Just for
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Fun. Although I have never had the opportunity to
I am from the east coast and for health reasons, am getting out of the training business
ride a horse like that, I watched him from ringside
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to go into judging and stewarding. I have found your magazine by accident on a friends
for so many years and always thought that is the
Z (a USEF judge) coffeetable here in South Carolina and have enjoyed every single
kind of horse I would want. I am glad he was well
page!! It is so refreshing to see the coverage from California really getting across the feel
taken care of, and I am thrilled that these horses
for that coast. I lived in Los Angeles years ago and reading your articles brings me
that get so much show ring use have responsible
back there again. Put me on your subscription list and also send me a box or two and
owners who take care of them to the end. I hope all
I will pass them around out here in the east.
these show horses get the same care.
Ann Schneider
Patricia McDonald
Camden, South Carolina
Redwood City, California
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Dear Readers:
In an effort to be open about emails and Dear Kathy/Editor letters that come to ShowBiz, below are emails that came to, and then from, ShowBiz. This
is the first article that has evoked strong responses, both positive and negative, and therefore posting both sides of it will let people decide for themselves. I
am printing both her letter and my response. HOWEVER, I would appreciate feedback from you, the readers! Please send your opinion and feedback
to
califshowbiz@aol.com This is the first negative letter we have received and with the nature of its tone, we are asking for your opinions. It refers to the
May-June issue that tells about the pony that coliced.
To the writer of Granddaughter’s Chronicles: I like the magazine I like the articles. YOU child spoken about does not have much money,
WERE COMPLETELY OUT OF has to do things the hard way and figure things
Do you think you could have been a little ruder? LINE! and I hope that you have the decency to out AND only has her grandmother to help.
More condescending and patronizing? I read apologize to the owners of the pony and the other This column is not only about showing, it is
your article, I have been in similar situations. children and I HOPE you kept your mouth shut about the involvement of a child with horses and
There are many more lessons to learn here other and didn’t embarrass any of the other adults and ponies and all the events that take place in her
than to make someone feel cheap and to not allow hurt more children in the process of standing on life.
children to learn economics, fate, health care, and your podium! Because all the money in the world Had you asked for clarification, you would
good old fashion compassion for one another apparently didn’t teach you any common sense know the process for the article and that the
despite economic standings are among the few I and it wont erase that bitter taste in ones mouth people were involved and THEY asked for an
can think of right off the top! when feelings have been scorched. article AND helped write it, instead your choice
First of all, not everyone can have everything. was to send your email, which in it’s own right is
Sometimes, even in good economic times, people Regards, Gretchen extremely interesting. I am so sorry for what ever
have to make choices! Sometimes, children need to has happened in your life to cause this reaction to
learn that there is no Santa Clause, your guilt not Dear Gretchen, an article that actually covers ALL of what you
withstanding, children need to learn to FEEL! wrote about. The children were told no..there was
Pain and sorrow and good old fashioned ‘what Thank you for your feedback. For your no insurance and no money for surgery.
if’. AND the word NO! As much as we love information, all parties involved with the pony Would you like me to print your letter, in
our horses sometimes the economics of surgery helped write the article and were SO adament its entirity, in the next issue..with you name
with our without the ever present ‘’great promised’ that the word get out that insurance, when children (Grethchen Hubert) in the author line? I need
outcome is just plain, NO, it doesn’t make sense, are involved, is a great investment. I have actually a city where you live, we include those with letters
lets wait it out, lets look at other options lets gotten about 2 dozen letters of appreciation on to the editor.
lets lets lets NOT give in to the temptations of that article so it was helpful to many people.
miracle fixes that simply aren’t feasible. If you follow the articles you will see that the Kathy
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