ne day, there was a small girl, named Ashley. She had always dreamed of having a horse of her very own.It was going to be her birthday in a couple of days, and she had asked her parents repeatedly for a horse. Exactly, she had wanted a dapple gray or white 9-year-old mare, that was a kind and gentle Lippizaner or Arabian. The day before her birthday, Ashley's parents told her that she ws going to get a very big birthday present, and that she had to go somewhere to get it. Ashley had figured out what it was:a horse. The following day, Ashley's parents blindfolded her, then took her out to a ploace that sounded farmiliar. They then took off the blindfold, and she was face to face with a dapple gray mare! Behind it, she saw new English boots, breeches, jacket, saddle, and bridle! All of it was very expensive. Her parents told Ashley everything about her new mare, and said that she was an 8-year-old Lippizan/Arabian mix. She was a very sweet horse, that was trained for Dressage, what Ashley was studying in her riding lessons. Ashley hugged and kissed both of her parents, then she got dressed in her new riding clothing, tacked and brushed her horse, and went riding with Stephanie, one of her friends. They spent the hwole day togehter, trying to think up a name for Ashley's horse. At the end of the day, they had come up with a name that suited the beautiful mare: Mistress Aurora. Every day following that day, Stephanie and Ashley rode each of their horses, Mellinda and Mistress Aurora, and showed together. It was the happiest time in Ashley's life to have a great friend whom she could share all of her secrets with, and to also have the horse of her dreams. She and Mistress Aurora lived happily ever after, winning blue ribbons and riding exquisitively.