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Tallahassee Democrat, Fla., Business Bazaar Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

May 11--OPENING THOUGHT: "I was 6 years old with a paper sack and a pony. That first day, I made $75 in quarters."-- Traci Black Billingsley.

SHOP TALK: It's not every day a business is inspired by a little girl who comes home toting a sack full of money and one tuckered out pony.

Traci Black Billingsley was that girl and has grown with the business that began one sunny day 20 years ago at Bradley's Country Store.

Today, Black's Horses & Ponies is far more than pony rides. It's a family business. "It started out as my business," Traci's mother, Dorothy, remembers. "Then it was Traci's; now it's everybody's."

Black's offers birthday and office parties, ...

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