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Article: Give 'Em Hill: Cuteness on the hoof -- it's big to be small
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- Oakland Tribune
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- October 4, 2009
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So last Sunday I stopped by the Metropolitan Horsemen's
Association and Area VII Shetland pony & Miniature Horse
Association's inaugural Mini & Small Horse Show in the Oakland
hills, a very big name for a show about something so small.
Not being much of a horse person myself -- my entire childhood
horse experience consisted of a two-minute pony ride in the parking
lot of the Town & Country Shopping Center in Palo Alto -- I didn't
quite know what to expect at a horse show, much less one for such
diminutive creatures. So when I arrived at the Sequoia Arena up in
Joaquin Miller Park, I was surprised to see that the arena was
empty. Some humans were sitting in the stands, and an obstacle
course ...