Chelsea

All Chelsea had ever wanted was a horse of her own. Her parents did not have enough money to pay for her riding lessons at the local stable, every week day she would work at the stable and on Fridays she was rewarded with a riding lesson. 

Chelsea worked like this for five years and she came to be a very good rider. Then the stable held a horse show and the owner invited Chelsea to ride in it. Chelsea knew riding in horse shows cost money that her parents couldn't afford to spend, so she told the owner she couldn't ride in the horse show. On the day of the horse show Chelsea walked sadly to the stable. She got all her work done and had a few hours left to watch the horse show. 

One girl, she noticed, was having a lot of trouble getting her horse to behave. The girl looked young, only about 10 years old. Then the horse reared up. The little girl stayed on, but her mother came rushing out and told the girl she couldn't ride the horse until it behaved. The girl's instructor looked around for someone to ride the horse in the horse show. The horse needed the experience, and it seemed like a waste to have brought the horse and not show it. 

Then the man spotted Chelsea standing by the ring. He asked her if she could ride the horse, and she agreed eagerly. She rode the horse in the horse show and won every class she entered. The man paid for everything, because it was his horse. 

The man thought Chelsea and the horse got along so well he decided to lend the horse to Chelsea for as long as she wanted. The man was very rich and he didn't want the horse if he couldn't behave for the little girl. Chelsea was so happy and she took care of the horse and rode it every day. 

The man never came back for his horse, so Chelsea kept it until its last days. When the horse died Chelsea was heartbroken. She couldn't sleep or eat, and she didn't ride for a long time. 

Then the man came back and wanted to know where his horse was and how it was doing. Chelsea told him he had died a peaceful death of old age. The man told her he was glad it had lived a good life with Chelsea because she had loved it and taken care of it. He told her she should never stop loving and caring for horses, and so she never did.

When she was older she opened up a home for old and abused horses. She got a lot of horses and cared for them as she cared for her first horse.

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