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Standing Ovation
Standing Ovation
Standing Ovation
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Standing Ovation

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This is the story of a girl who is horse crazy. She is an only child, lonely, with no one to play with, who is abused and cursed by a mother who is jealous of the time her father spends with her. After years of playing alone with only her pets to keep her company, the family moves up to a small farm of ten acres and a larger house out the country. She and her dad build a barn. Her father goes to the nearby country town to a horse sale, where he purchases her an old white mare to learn to ride on.

The horse is the girls salvation. She can escape the cruel and unhappy mother for hours now. She has many adventures on the mare, learns to ride, and although she loves the horse very much, her dad sells her because of the horses age and buys the girl a new horse. She eventually meets the boy she falls very much in love with, does not ride as much, and as a young woman, spends most of her free time with the boy.

They marry and have children, but in the back of the girls mind, there is much room for another horse. She begins with ponies for the girls and moves up to a horse for her. The family moves to a farm, and she upgrades to more and better stock as she can afford to.

Although she wins as much as she can with the poor quality and problem horses she is able to work with, they all improve to a point till she takes in other peoples horses to train. She wants very much to prove that she can do things as well as men can, and although the horse show world is a man's world, she wants them to know she can take their rejects and beat them with them.

After years of second and third place wins, her husband buys her the most expensive horse she has ever purchased. The mare is dirt cheap compared to most, she is small and skinny. The mare not yet 2 years old is just started enough for Walking Horse trainers to know she is a Racking horse not a walking horse and something they dont want.

She works the mare, trains her, and just when she has her going good, the mare comes down with an illness. Months of nursing and retraining later, she begins winning her classes. Competition is fierce and dangerous. Everything comes to a head at the Racking Horse World Championships. A horse dies suspiciously in Ovations stall. But for once in her life she shows just what a winner is and Wins 3 world Titles in 1 week at the World Championships. Although her winnings are protested, she comes out on top. (Ovations story is to be continued in the next book.)
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateApr 14, 2016
ISBN9781514456453
Standing Ovation
Author

S. F. Cato

Shirley Cato was born in West Point, Georgia, and graduated from LaFayette High School, in LaFayette, Alabama. She spent her early years drawing and painting her favorite subjects, animals. Although she has had no formal training, art came easy, and in the l970s, she painted a great deal and attended many art shows. Her paintings were purchased by many people throughout the USA. Two of her portraits went to professional football players, and she has also done artwork for the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Including her art career was another career, that of professional horse trainer. All this was done while she and her husband raised two beautiful daughters. Their farm was located in Huguley, Alabama, and during a twenty-year career in showing horses, she won a total of five world championships and nine reserve world championships. She started a new business in l985, that of a professional photographer. Her business, named Through the Lens, has become a well-known and highly thought-of photography studio in the community of LaGrange, Georgia, and surrounding areas. She studied high fashion and glamour and attended many classes with great photographers, including Dennis Reggie, wedding photographer to the stars. She has had her photos published in national magazine’s named Windows, Western Horsman, also in a hard copy book called The Big Click. Her photos have appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television show. She has served as Official Steeplechase photographer at the Callaway Gardens event for many years. She competed at the local level of the Georgia Professional Photographers of America, and also the Southeastern Level. She has won many first place photographic awards including first in pets and animals, in 1990, first in fine art portraiture, 1993, and first in commercial photography in 1995. Also have been included many honor awards and in l998 won the coveted Dick Dickerson Award. One winning photo has been printed in the Georgia Professional Photographer of America brochure representing all Georgia professional photographers. She received her fellowship Degree in 2000. In 1995 and 1997 she served as President of the LaGrange, Artist Guild, while running her business as well as painting artwork. She is a proud donator of her art and time to the local clubs. She has taught photography classes at the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, as well as lectured to clubs like the Opelika Kiwanis Club. She is ever increasing her knowledge and experience and is always looking toward future wins and excitement in her photography and art. She has begun a new career as author. Her first book is under the care of agents hands as we converse. It is a wonderful story filled with excitement, drama, and hope. She is looking forward to a full career as author and the excitement of a best seller.

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