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Rainbow's New Book

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Home Sweet Home

Becoming a Therapy Horse

Photography Contest Winners Featuring Gentle Carousel Horses

Elephants, Zebras and Gentle Carousel... Oh My

Magic Horses Poem

Photo Memories

Amazing People

Our Rescues and Therapy Friends

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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ECLIPSE

Palm Beach's Black Tie Affair

 AMHA/AMHR  Jet Black

AMHA Futurity Nominated

Grandson of NFCS Fire & Ice

Great Grandson of Glenn's Southern Legend (son of Lazy N Boogerman)

Great Grandson of  Bond Peppy Power (son of Bond Showboy)

Eclipse is "The Black Stallion" in Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic program.

   

  

 

 PEDIGREE FOR ECLIPSE

Sire

HUNT HOUSE FARMS LEGENDARY FIRE
 

1997 32.25" Solid Black

Sire

NFCS FIRE AND ICE

1988 30.5" Black Pinto

Reserve National Champion as a yearling. He went on to many Supreme Halter Horse titles  as a senior stallion. He has produced National and Reserve National Champions.

Sold in 1998 for $122,000

 

 

  SIRE OF:

Hunt House Farms Ice Goddess
 

1995 AMHA National Champion & Reserve National Champion

 Hunt House Farms Dancing On Ice

Reserve National Champion

Many others of his get have been named National Top Ten honors. 

 

Sire

BOND PEPPY POWER

1982 Grey Dapple

Bond Peppy Power is the sire of 16 AMHA National Titles which include 10 AMHA National Champion, 6 AMHA National Reserve Champions and 9 AMHA National Top 10's.

Sire of National Champion stallions NFC’s Manipulator, NFC’s Fire & Ice and NFC’s Gambling Man.

 

Many of Peppy’s daughters  such as NFC’s Peppys Music Box, NFC’s Peppys Secret Love, NFC’s Peppy Bell and Pecan Grove Peppys Perfect Lady, were champions at the national level.

 

Sire

BOND SHOWBOY

1969 28.5" Black Pinto

Sire of:

Bond A Toy 4 U C

 National Grand Champion

Bond Snippet

Reserve National Grand Champion

 

Dam

BOND TIMBAL

1976 31" Solid Blackhes

Dam

NFCS APACHE ROSE

A 11115   
03/18/85

Solid Black

34 Inches

Sire


DELS APACHE

1977 30" Black Pinto

Sire of  many National Champions Stallions including:


NFCs Apache Kid

Dam


FLYING W FARMS SWEET ROSIE OGRADY

1981 34" Solid Black

Dam


HUNT HOUSE FARMS LEGENDS EBONY

1992 32.5"  Solid Black

Sire S

GLENN'S SOUTHERN LEGEND

1988 33"  Solid Black

1989 National Grand Champion Jr. Stallion

Sire

LAZY NS BOOGERMAN

1982 33" Solid Chestnut

One of the winningest horses in AMHA history.  During his show career, he won first place 131 times en route to 92 Grand Championships.  His stud producing record is just as impressive in that Boogerman  was the #1 AMHA National Futurity Sire for the year 2000 and is a Reserve National Champion Get Of Sire.  He has produced 19 National titles which include 2 National Grand Reserve, 9 National Champions and 8 National Reserve Champions.

Sold in 1992 for an unprecedented $110,000

Son of:

ROWDY

Producer of  AMHA National Grand Champions, AMHA National Reserve Grand Champions, National Champions and Reserve Champions

Dam

HOBBY HORSES MIDNIGHT COWGIRL

1981 30" Solid Black

Dam

SG TRUE LOVE

1988 31.75" Solid Bay

Sire

DEL TERAS SPECTATOR

1983 30.25" Solid Bay

Dam

ROCKIN NS HELL N ANN

1985 33.75"Solid Black

         

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

 

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Would You Like To Meet Our Horses?    MAGIC     RAINBOW    ANGEL     SUNDANCE     MUSIC     CIRCUS     SPARKLE    

  FLAME    ECLIPSE     MILKY WAY     WHISTLE     FEATHER    SCOOTER    HOLLYWOOD     MOONBEAM     STARDUST   

DREAMER     FIREFLY    RAIN DANCE     STORMY    MELODY    HOPE    SILVER    ROCKET

MAGIC MAN'S ON DEMAND    Magic Horses Poem    A Once In A Lifetime Horse...Magic    Home Sweet Home

Photo Memories    More Photos    Our Rescues    2009 Magic of Horses Fundraiser     Amazing People    Other Therapy Animals

Elephants, Zebras and Gentle Carousel... Oh My!    Photography Contest Winners Featuring Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses

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