About 3 weeks ago, Heather came to me asking questions about letting a young girl being at a ranch. I answered them the best I could not knowing that those questions were about the ranch.
So, when the time came, I got a big surprise. Caroline Murphy came to live with her aunt Heather. Now don't get me wrong, I was surprised, but didn't get mad. Why should I, the poor girl just lost both of her parents and Heather was her only closest living relative. So without much ado, here is her story
"Hi, my name is Caroline Murphy and I am 10 years old. I recently lost my mom and dad in horrific car wreck. I was staying the night at my best friends house when the police came to their house to give me the bad news. The police officer told me that some guy in a pickup ran my parents off the road in a fit of rage. Then after he got them off the road, he proceeded to ram their car with his pickup. My dad was the first to loose his life. From what the officer told me, my mom died shortly after my dad. The bad guy was arrested and they found that he had lots of beer in him"
While Caroline was telling me her story, We were both crying. I told her that I too had lost my parents, but not the way hers' died. Mine died of natural causes. Heather had told me before that Caroline was a good rider, so we gave her a try out on one of our newest Saddlebreds. They seemed to have "Clicked" and now Caroline has a horse all to her own. She knows the rules around the ranch and since child labor laws prohibit us to pay her a check, we just added her wages on to Heather's. For a 10 year old girl, I can say she can ride.
Though she is assigned to him, she still has the opportunity to ride our other gaited horses. When showing, He will be her first entry to the class.
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