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Elephants, Zebras and Gentle Carousel... Oh My

Magic Horses Poem

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An Enchanted Afternoon Fairy Princess Tea Party

Magical Moments Fashion Show

2009 Magic of Horses

MAGIC

RAINBOW

ANGEL

SUNDANCE

 ALADDIN

ILLUSION

 CHAPS

CIRCUS

SPARKLE

FLAME

ECLIPSE

STARLIGHT

MILKY WAY

COMET

WHISTLE

FEATHER

BRIGHTY

MOONBEAM

STARDUST

DREAMER

SPLASH

PRINCESS

BLAZING STAR

HOPE

SUMMER

BANNER

CONTENDER

RAIN DANCE

MELODY

SHADOW

SILVER

ROCKET

PEANUT

MAGIC MAN'S ON DEMAND

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Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.

Your donations are tax deductible. Help us grant wishes, make memories and bring a little magic into the world.

Gentle Carousel Inc.

P.O. Box 1672

High Springs, FL  32655

Phone: 352-226-9009

MiniHorseTherapy@att.net

Magic selected Most Heroic Pet In America. See her in AARP the Magazine.

Gentle Carousel in Woman's World magazine.

Gentle Carousel was selected a charity partner in Disney's 2010 volunteer program "Give a Day. Get a Day."

 

 

 What an honor and thrill to have Gentle Carousel's Sundance as a riveting character in JASON AND ELIHU.-Shelley Fraser Mickle

" Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses.

Your Reading Is Magic program and volunteers are heroes every time they walk into a school or library.  Using little miniature horses to inspire young children to read is most creative.  Congratulations on your wonderful charity, spirit and service to your community.

- Bill Bennett " Former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett

"Keep up the wonderful work you do.  I often tell people that Lassie was the first therapy dog--the first to be allowed in hospitals more than 50 years ago!      

Best, Jon " Jon Provost - Appeared as Timmy Martin on Lassie

Canine movie star Benji working with Magic.

"What they are doing is just so incredible.  They are making a difference. These people are the real deal.  They are down there in the trenches doing it."

 -Joe Camp

  Film writer, producer, director, bestselling author and man behind canine superstar Benji.

"What 'Reading Is Magic' does for kids by going into schools and igniting excitement for reading a story is beyond compare.  Keep the hoofbeats going."

Carl Joseph, Author of SOME CALLED ME SUPERSTAR

 

"Reading Is Magic!

Every child you inspire to read is a life forever changed. Thank you for that and for bringing books to life...It can take you from outer space to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Either way, the journey is magical.

...Wow.  Love those little horses... Great job you're doing.  I'm proud of you." 

-Homer Hickam

Magic appearing on The Ilene Silverman Show.

 

James Gurney

Best-selling author and illustrator of the Dinotopia book series.

 

 Magic with four-time Olympian and ten-time US Female Equestrian Athlete of the Year, Karen O'Connor.

 

Magic with  David O'Connor, president of the United States Equestrian Federation, Olympic gold medalist and Pan American Games and World Equestrian Games medalist.

 

"Magic and Gentle Carousel,

    Inspiring children to read is magical. You are making a difference!"

 Chris Soentpiet - Acclaimed children's book author and illustrator

Professional baseball player Jon Townsend of the Los Angeles Angels visiting children with Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses.

Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses and Florida Gators football players at a camp for children with cancer.

"To Magic and Gentle Carousel-

 You have a wonderful program. Thank you for bringing joy to children... Keep reading! It is magic!"

-Anna Grossnickle Hines, author and illustrator of over 50 children's books.

"...Thank you for all the work you do.

...Reading is Magic!"

- Linda Sue Park

Newbery Medal Winner

 

Gentle Carousel on television.

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STARLIGHT

Distant Thunder Velveteen Starlight

 AMHA/AMHR Bay Tovero with Blue Eye

 "Winter starlight glistens in the sky, winks and blinks and teases from on high. What a cheerful, happy sight to see; winter starlight, joyful and carefree. "

 

 

       

Starlight's look-a-like Reading Is Magic book.

 

Starlight is the daughter of:

Oak Parks Black Velvet Superstar

AMHA/AMHR 33" Jet Black Tobiano

Lab Tested:  Positive for Tobiano

 

Starlight is the daughter of:

Fowlers Medis Van Los Vanity

2004 30" AMHA Black Splash Sabino Overo with Blue Eye

Lab tested positive for sabino

 

Starlight is the granddaughter of:

Little Kings Black Velvet

The top producing son of the great Boones Little Buckeroo. 

Velvet is a top futurity sire and the sire of multiple World Champions and multiple World Grand Champions.

 

Starlight is the great granddaughter of :

Skip A Star

1985 National Grand Champion Senior Stallion

 

Starlight is the great granddaughter of :

 BOONES LITTLE BUCKAROO

Without a doubt, Buckeroo is the most well-known miniature stallion in the world today. He holds the unequaled record of winning three National Grand Champion Senior Stallion Titles. 

In TEN consecutive years, SEVEN Buckeroo sons and grandsons won the AMHA NATIONAL GRAND CHAMPION SENIOR STALLION TITLE!

 

 

Starlight is the great great granddaughter of :

Roan Ranger

1985 National Grand Champion Senior Stallion

 

 

Starlight's Pedigree

Sire

OAK PARKS BLACK VELVET SUPERSTAR

2005 33" AMHA/AMHR Black Pinto

 

 

Sire

Little Kings Black Velvet

1991 32.50" Solid Black

Top Futurity Sire

Multiple World Champions and multiple World Grand Champion producer

Sire

 BOONES LITTLE BUCKAROO

1978 30.50" Buckskin

Without a doubt, Buckeroo is the most well-known miniature stallion in the world today. He holds the unequaled record of winning three National Grand Champion Senior Stallion Titles. 

In TEN consecutive years, SEVEN Buckeroo sons and grandsons won the AMHA NATIONAL GRAND CHAMPION SENIOR STALLION TITLE!

Sire

POPLAR LANES SAMSON

1970 31" Solid Sorrel

Dam

   

JOHNSONS VANILLA

1975 34" Solid Palomino

Dam

Little Kings Red Velvet

1983 33.25" Solid Sorrel

Sire

KOMOKOS LITTLE KINGS SUPREME

1990 31.5" Solid Palomino

One of the foundation sires of the Little King Farm breeding program.  He produced multiple AMHA National Grand, National and Reserve National Champions.

Dam

KOMOKOS APPLE

 DUMPLING

1990 33" Solid Buckskin

Dam

HUNT HOUSE FARMS SUPERSTAR

1997 33" Chestnut Pinto

       

Sire

Sire

 
1982 31.25" 
Solid Chestnut     

1985 National Grand Champion Senior Stallion

National Champion

Producer and Sire of National Champion Producers

 

Sire

1974 30" Red Roan 

Sire of :

1985 National Grand Champion Senior Stallion

 Skip A Star
 
 Reserve National 
Grand Champion 
Stallion
 
Johnston’s Starlight Ranger 
 
National Grand Champion
 Junior Stallion
 

  NFCs Sugar BoyFor AMHR, he produced two-time National Grand Champion Stallion

 Gingerbread Farms Rapid Transit

Dam

33.50 Inches

Dam

BOND BAFFLES

1976 32.5"

Chestnut Pinto

 

Sire

BOND SIR GALAHAD

1966 27.5" Black Pinto

Dam

BOND BUNNY HOP

1968 34" Solid Chestnut

Dam

FOWLERS MEDIS VAN LOS VANITY

2004  30" AMHA Black Splash Sabino Overo with Blue Eye

Lab tested positive for sabino

 

Sire


FLABYS MEDICINE MAN

 1993 32.5" Sorrel Pinto

 

 


 

Sire

stAR ENTERPRISE 

1997 29.5"Solid Chestnut

Sire of:

FLABYS WONDER MAN

Sire

Sire

FREEMANS STAR

I965 30" Red Roan

Dam

ROLLING RIDGES SHADOW

32"

 Dam

FLABYS EASTER LILY

1993 32.25" Sorrel Pinto

 
Sire

DELLS GOLDEN NUGGET

1981 29.5" Red Roan

Dam

NANCY W

1983 30.75" Dapple Grey

Dam of:

Flabys Supreme

Dam

VAN LOS CHRISTINE

1995 32"Silver Dapple

Sire

VAN LOS TONY

1984 31.5" Solid Chestnut

Sire

MYLERS SHORTY

1975 32.5" Solid Chestnut

Dam

VAN LOS VANI

1980 37" Solid Chestnut

Dam

VAN LOS VANITY

1989 34" Solid Chestnut

Full sibling to:

VAN LOS PALEFACE

Dam of:

 Van Los Angel In Calico

Sire

VAN LOS TONY

1984 31.5" Solid Chestnut

  

Dam

MYLERS ANGEL

1977 33.5

Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.

Your donations are tax deductible.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." ~Winston Churchill

 

Gentle Carousel Inc.

P.O. Box 1672

High Springs, FL  32655

Phone: 352-226-9009

E-mail: MiniHorseTherapy@att.net

2010 PONY UP! 

 

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DREAMER     FIREFLY    RAIN DANCE     STORMY    MELODY    HOPE    SILVER    ROCKET

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