From the Horse's Mouth

"When I was a young horse, I thought if I wasn't always good, I could at least be use-ful. Then I broke my leg."

When Snoopy was three years old, he won the 2007 Pacific Coast Quar-ter Horse Asso-ci-a-tion Trail Futu-rity. His trainer and his owner had his career mapped out--he would be cam-paigned around the cir-cuit and qual-ify to be invited to the AQHA World Show.

Then in 2008, Snoopy broke his left hind sesamoid, a small bone in the leg. This injury can mean any-thing from surgery to euthana-sia. Surgery didn't guar-an-tee he could be rid-den again, much less shown.

In the tra-di-tion of Black Beauty, this is Snoopy's own story, told from his spe-cial point of view. He tells of his youth, his train-ing, his injury, and his long fight to return to the show arena, to prove he's the same horse he always was, only different.