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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 volunteer program
"Give a Day. Get a Day."
Sundance
reading at a Boys and Girls Club with former NFL and University of
Florida quarterback Doug Johnson for an Associated Press
photo.
 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 University of
Florida
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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MAGIC
Strebor Black
Magic On Demand
AMHA/AMHR Jet Black with 3/4 Apron Face and Two Blue Eyes
Magic
selected Most Heroic Pet In America!
 
A heroic
pet is one that "has significantly improved or saved a
life". Ten
finalists were selected from across the country by AARP
Magazine as the "ten most heroic, original and inspiring"
pets in America. Magic was chosen from the finalists
as the winner and Most Heroic Pet in America.
AARP Magazine is
the world's largest circulation magazine with over 25,000,000
subscribers. Look for Magic in the May/June 2010 issue.
What makes Magic
heroic? Magic has touched many lives and been part of many miracles
but this is the story that caught the attention of AARP The
Magazine.
Photos
from the Ocala Star-Banner.
While a
reporter was taking photos of a therapy horse visit, a woman
who had not spoken since she arrived at the assisted care
facility three years earlier began talking to therapy horse
Magic. "Isn't she beautiful" were her first words.
"It's a horse". The activities director began to cry
and told the woman she loved her. "I love you too," the
woman answered...her first full sentence to another person.
Before Magic left the woman asked, "Will she come back
again?" Six months after Magic's first visit the woman is still
talking!
 Activities director
Linda McSorley responds to hearing Kathleen Loper speak to
Magic after not speaking to anyone for the three years she
had lived in the Hampton Manor assisted living facility.
Ann
Marie Malave
Regional Activity Coordinator and Community Liaison, Hampton
Manor
"There’s
not a word to even describe it. It’s more of a feeling when
you see them interact. It just can bring tears to your eyes.
We had a resident who did not speak. And the horses came in
and for the first time she spoke words. Everybody cried. It
was just the most touching, heartfelt experience I ever had.
You can’t even put a word on it. When you see something like
that happen, somebody who has not spoken in years, and this
horse, this beautiful creature comes in, and the residents
petting and holding and hugging and then speaks words.
Everybody cried. It was wonderful.
They’re
the bridge. They connect our residents with maybe a memory,
a feeling, something that they’ve done in their life. It’s
just such an experience. There’s no words to describe it.
That
was a miracle...
They
donate their time, their expense, their volunteers to come
and share with us and change the lives of the residents that
live here.
They
spread a little bit of Magic in everyone’s lives when they
come and it’s donated."
Quoted
from the documentary LITTLE MIRACLES about Gentle
Carousel horses.
In Woman's World magazine.
Gainesville Today
Magazine
Magic in Ocala
Style Magazine
Therapy
Horses Magic and Moonbeam on
 ..
Article from
Gainesville Sun
newspaper.
Therapy
Horse Magic appearing on
The
Ilene Silverman Show.
Magic
and Moonbeam on the news again at the Ronald McDonald House.
Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses brought a sleigh with stuffed
toy horses but the real horses got most of the attention.
Magic in
front of a television camera at a Reading Is Magic
event.
 
Aaron Daye/Staff
photographer-Gainesville Sun
Jenna Davis, 2,
reacts to being tickled by Magic, a 2-foot-tall
miniature horse provided by Gentle Carousel.
More television for
Magic.
Magic at station WOCA with "AM Ocala Live" radio hosts Larry
Whitler and Robin. She stayed for the half hour Gentle
Carousel interview. See more photos of Magic at the WOCA
Photo Gallery.
Magic on television (at the Ronald McDonald House).
"Milky Way"
and Magic on
at a Reading Is Magic event.
Great
new feature story in the March 2009 issue of
Miniature Horse World
magazine.
Magic in
The
Observer
at High Springs preschool.
Magic is the
daughter of:
Magic is the granddaughter
of:
Magic Man of LTD's
19 Times National and Reserve
National Champion
National Grand Champion
Producer
Pedigree for
Magic
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Sire
LTDS
MAGIC MANS ON DEMAND
27.5" Jet Black Frame Overo with 2 Blue Eyes
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Sire
MAGIC MAN OF LTDS
1990 32.50" Black Roan Rabicano
Medicine hat Frame Overo Pinto Pinto
19 Times
National and Reserve National Champion
National Grand Champion Producer
19
National and Reserve National
Titles, in 3 registries by winning
the Country Pleasure Driving,
Versatility, Hunter, Halter, Get of
Sire, Ideal Pinto Driving and
Multi-Color Classes. To date,
he and his get have earned over 140
National/Reserve National Titles and
hundreds of Top Tens.
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Sire
SHREDDER
1987 32" Black Pinto
Reserve National Champion Amateur
Stallion/ Many Times Grand
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Sire
SONRISAS HAJEL
1971 33.25" Chestnut Tovero
Sire to 5 National Champions
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Dam
GYPSY
34.5 "
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Dam
WENDY
36" White
AMHR Superior Dam
Dam of Multiple HOF's and National
Champions and National Champion
producing get, including LTD's Magic
Man, LTD's Magical Mystery, LTD's
Color Broker and LTD's Silverado
Granddaughter
of:
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SAMPLE
1966
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Sire
Unregistered
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Dam
Unregistered |
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Dam
DOUBLE A
CHEYANNE
1996 30" Solid Buckskin
Multiple National Top Ten Winner and
National Champion Producing Dam
Cheyanne
is the dam of Unanimous Multiple
National Champion
Magic
Man's Fashionably Dun
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Sire
MAGNOLIA FARMS
COWBOY BLUE
1990 31.5" Solid Palomino
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Sire
SLIGO
LITTLE STORMY
1975 29" Solid White
Son of
SLIGO SAM
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Dam
MAGNOLIA FARMS
RUBY RED
1986 31" Solid Sorrel
Daughter of
 I
Shadow Oaks Cock
Robin
Granddaughter of
Chianti
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Dam
MI MIS MIDNITE
MIRACLE
1990 33" Solid Buckskin
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Sire
SNOW FIRES
SILVERADO
1986 30.5" Solid Buckskin |
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Dam
BEAUTYS AUTUMN
STAR
1986 34" Solid Buckskin
SHADOW OAKS PAUL
BUNYAN
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Dam
MAR
JACS MIDNITE VELVET
1997 32.5" Solid
Black
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Sire
MEEKERS STEEL BANDIT
1991 29.75"
Dapple Grey
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Sire
YOGA LIGHT VANT HUTTENEST
1984 26.5" Solid Grey
1988
and 1990 National Champion Senior Stallion
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Sire
DELS COWBOY
1981 30.5" Solid
Palomno
DNA Tested
Sire of
Mutiple AMHA National Champions including:
Landry's Cowboy Del
Son of
RUTH HAYNES MOTO
Ruth
Haynes Moto was the first National Champion Mare of AMHA |
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Dam
PARADISE
BIRD VANT HUTTENEST
1975 28" Solid Bay
National Champion
Producer
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Dam
GREEN ACRES SNEAK PREVIEW
1985
27.75" Dapple Grey
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Sire
WILOCAGES
SMIDGET
1977 30.75" Solid
Brown
Son of
SLIGO SAM
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Dam
PALMERS LIL
1979 31"
Solid Chestnut
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Dam
TNTS
FOOTLOOSE N FANCY FREE
1991
31.25" Solid Sorrel
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Sire
COCOAS CHARLIE BOY
1983
32.25" Solid Black
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Sire
OHIOS BAY LADY COCOA BUTTER
1976 29.5"
Black Pinto
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Dam
KRAUS KINGS JULIANNE
1979 34"
Solid Chestnut
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Dam
SHOWDOWN PATCHES
1976 34"
Solid
Sorrel
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Sire
Unknown- Unregistered
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Dam
Unknown- Unregistered
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Gentle Carousel
Therapy Horses is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit charity.
Your
donations are tax deductiible.
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good
for the inside of a man." ~Winston Churchill |
