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MAGIC

RAINBOW

ANGEL

SUNDANCE

MUSIC

CIRCUS

SPARKLE

FLAME

ECLIPSE

STARLIGHT

MILKY WAY

WHISTLE

FEATHER

SCOOTER

BRIGHTY

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

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2009 Magic of Horses Fundraiser

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Gentle Carousel has been selected as a charity partner in Disney's 2010 volunteer program "Give a Day. Get a Day." Beginning January 1, 2010, when you sign up on Disney's website to volunteer a day of service to Gentle Carousel you'll get one day admission to a Walt Disney World® or Disneyland®theme park, FREE!

 

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.

MiniHorseTherapy@att.net

Phone: 352-226-9009

Gentle Carousel Inc.

P.O. Box 1672

High Springs, FL  32655

or

Jorge Garcia-Bengochea

105 West 86th Street

Suite 220

New York, New York  10024

Therapy Horse Angel working at a photo shoot.

Magic appearing on The Ilene Silverman Show.

Gentle Carousel on

  "To Magic and Gentle Carousel,  Thank you for all of your work.  Helping children read is the greatest magic of all,,,"

- James Gurney,

Best-selling author and illustrator of the Dinotopia book series.  Thank you for the original artwork you created for Reading Is Magic.

 

Gainesville Today Magazine

 

"Reading Is Magic!

Every child you inspire to read is a life forever changed. Thank you for that and for bringing books to life...

...Reading is magic. 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

Lend a Hand

Thank you Girls Horse Club for making Gentle Carousel the organization you adopted this year!

"Magic and Gentle Carousel,

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

 Chris Soentpiet - Acclaimed children's book author and illustrator

Magic and Moonbeam behaving like pros for a television interview at the Ronald McDonald House.

"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

" Gentle Carousel 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

 

Reading Is Magic in the News!

Magic receiving grant check from Walmart for Reading Is Magic program.

 

Winning photo of Therapy Horse Circus and the Grady House Dalmatians.

Rainbow on television.

 Look for Therapy Horse Circus in Spring 2009 EquuSSource Magazine

"To Magic and The Gentle Carousel Horses... What an awesome thing y'all are doing... these people are the real deal and they are making a difference.

 -Joe Camp

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

Canine movie star Benji working with Magic.

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

  Look for Therapy Horse Stardust in Horse Illustrated magazine.

Contest winning photo of Therapy Horse Circus.

Feature article about Gentle Carousel in Miniature Horse World magazine.

"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. 

 

 Caliente wins Gainesville Sun Photography Contest.

Professional baseball player Jon Townsend of the Los Angeles Angels has supported Gentle Carousel on our therapy visits.

See our Gentle Carousel horses in this Miniature Horse World Magazine.

Therapy Horse Stardust is the "Horse of The Month" at Green Horn Horse Facts.

Also see the Gentle Carousel interview:

 

 

Therapy Horse Stardust won First Place in the American Miniature Horse Association OH What A Beautiful Baby Photo Contest

 

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

  

Gentle Carousel In The News

Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses have been in the news! 

  

Therapy Horses Magic and Moonbeam on ..

 

 

 Congratulations to Magic.  She has been selected AARP Magazine's 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 of AARP 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.

 

 

 

Award winning documentary filmmakers from The Imagination Company of Utah (near Sundance) came to Florida to film Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses! 

 

 

Ocala Style Magazine

Front Page Article from Riverland News newspaper.

 

Therapy Horse Magic appearing on The Ilene Silverman Show.

Magic with the director and the host of The Ilene Silverman Show.

   

 

 

 

Front Page Article from Lake City Reporter newspaper.

 

 

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.

 

Article from Gainesville Sun newspaper.

                                                                                                             - Photo by Jason Henry

 

Front page story in January 2009.

 

Magic in front of a television camera at a Reading Is Magic event.

 

Gentle Carousel's Reading Is Magic Program in the news.

 

 

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 Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses.

 

Reading Is Magic at First Steps Fall Festival (Gainesville Sun).

 

Rainbow at the Family Literacy Festival (Gainesville Sun).

 

  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.

 

Some of our great volunteers at work (Ocala Magazine).

 

Gainesville  Magazine

 

  Listen to best selling author Joe Camp's earlier interview (and thoughts on Gentle Carousel) on the podcast:

News Talk on WOCA

     Thank you to all the radio stations who have broadcast interviews with Gentle Carousel!

 

  "The Buzz" 100.5 FM (rock alternative)

  DVH 101.7 (classic country)

 "80's, 90's" 106.9 FM KZY

 "Magic" 101.3 FM (urban hip hop)

 "Rejoice" 1430 AM (religious)

 

Moonbeam gets a television hug.

Magic on television (at the Ronald McDonald House).

"Milky Way"  and Magic on at a Reading Is Magic event.

 

Photo from Riverland News newspaper.

Article from Good Life Community Magazine.

 

Front Page of The Observer newspaper.

 

 Great new feature story in the March 2009 issue of Miniature Horse World magazine.

A tiny visitor from Gentle Carousel brings a message of love to Seniors United and Haven Hospice...

By Karl Burkhardt

Magic visiting Seniors United/Lake City Medical Center.


See our Gentle Carousel interview at:

"Horse Talk: Interviews With Top People Making Changes In The Horse World"

 

Article from Gainesville Today (Spring 2009)

 

 

Therapy Horse Circus with the Grady House Dalmatians in March 2009 issue of EquuSSource magazine. 

A photo of therapy horse Angel in EquuSSource magazine. 

 

 

Stardust appeared in the November 2008 issue of Horse Illustrated magazine.

 

Caliente wins 1st Place in the Gainesville Sun Photography Contest.

 

                                                                              Photo of Magic from Our Town Publications. 

 

  

Therapy Horse Circus appears in a book about miniature horses.

 

See Gentle Carousel Therapy Horses in Southern Equine, Horse and Pony News and Alachua and High Springs Magazine.

 

A newspaper photo of Silver (then known as Butterscotch) before he was purchased to start Gentle Carousel's training program.  Look at Silver to see him now.

 

 

Magic in The Observer at High Springs preschool.

 

Our Gentle Carousel Horses have appeared in Miniature Horse World magazine "Irresistible Miniature Moments".  The horse on the cover is the father of one of our minis.

 

 

This photo of Distant Thunder Stardust On Demand won First Place in the 2008 American Miniature Horse Association OH What A Beautiful Baby Photo Contest.  Look for his photo in Miniature Horse World magazine.

 

 

Magic in the Horse and Pony News magazine.

 

 

 

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! 

 

Home   Testimonials    Frequently Asked Questions    Gentle Carousel in Magazines, Newspapers and on Television    

What's New At Gentle Carousel    Our Sponsors and Friends    Becoming a Therapy Horse

How You Can Help Gentle Carousel     Our Horses In The Movies      Books Featuring Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses

Wish List and Volunteer Opportunities    Our Mission    Movie Star Benji Teams Up With Gentle Carousel    

 Gentle Carousel's READING IS MAGIC at Libraries     Gentle Carousel's READING IS MAGIC at Schools

Gentle Carousel's READING IS MAGIC Authors and Illustrators

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

Contact Us

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