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Archive for October, 2007

Happy Halloween

By LeadMare • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: Odds & Ends



Five Reasons to Save a Life

By GHC • Oct 28th, 2007 • Category: Junior Bloggers, Take a Stand, by Rebecca Shyly

by Rebecca Shyly, age 11
Below are five reasons to save a life instead of buying one. I wrote this for a club that my friend and I have. I hope this makes a difference in the way you think.
Reason one to save horses: Horses have carried us through history and now we slaughter them? That [...]



Publishing Update

By LeadMare • Oct 27th, 2007 • Category: GHC News

WOW. Is it just me or does it seem like we’ve raised the bar with your latest blogs? I’m so impressed — horse girls are amazingly talented!
Just a reminder that submissions are closed starting Monday October 29th. November submission dates will be announced later. Please read below for info about the status of your story [...]



Ride From Your Heart

By GHC • Oct 26th, 2007 • Category: Junior Bloggers, Riding Advice, by Syd

by Syd, age 12
Give it your all. Give it your heart. Give it everything. Ride.
I’m sure we’ve all had those lessons. Those lessons where we don’t get the horse we want to ride. Or we have to ride a horse that we don’t like or that doesn’t like us. A lesson where you’re extremely frustrated [...]



A Horsey Halloween

By GHC • Oct 23rd, 2007 • Category: Arts and Crafts, Games, Junior Blogger Archives

by horsejo, age 11
The scariest night of the year is rapidly approaching. It will soon be October 31st. That’s right, very soon it will be Halloween. The one and only night of the year when you go out and get candy and dress up in a spooky, funny, or weird costume. But this year, remember [...]



Our Horseshoe Luck

By GHC • Oct 21st, 2007 • Category: Gift Horse, Junior Bloggers, by Madelaina

by Madelaina | Have you already gotten a horse in your backyard and are still hungry for more? Or have you begged for years and years to get a cell phone, and when you finally did, started wanting something else like an iPod? This is a common reaction triggered plainly by greed…



Fall is Here!

By GHC • Oct 19th, 2007 • Category: Junior Blogger Archives, Odds & Ends

by Julia, age 13

I don’t know about you, but where I live the summer weather is officially done. The 90° temperature is past as the cooler, windy weather settles in. All the trees surrounding my home are losing their once green leaves. Slowly but surely the leaves are turning from green to shades of brilliant [...]



Three Day Eventing: A Competition for the Best of the Best

By GHC • Oct 17th, 2007 • Category: Junior Blogger Archives, Showing and Sport

by horsejo, age 11
To be in the Three Day Event is a real honor. It is a competition which takes a lot of skill. You see, to be in Three Day Eventing, you have to be good at three things — Dressage, Cross Country, and Show Jumping. All of them are very difficult, and it [...]



When You’re Lost

By GHC • Oct 16th, 2007 • Category: Junior Blogger Archives, Riding Advice

by Cassie, age 11
So you went out for a trail ride with your horse or pony and you decide to have a bit of an adventure. You go off trail and ride for awhile when all of a sudden you find that nothing looks the same. You try and find your way back to the [...]



Got Horse Stories?

By LeadMare • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: GHC News

Update 10-29-07: October submissions are closed. Check the publishing calendar for great new stories throughout November along with news about when submissions will re-open.
Have you enjoyed the quiet of your imagination while Girls Horse Club publishing services were on hiatus? I hope so, because that means your head is crowded with horsey stories, poems, and [...]