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BEST OF THE WEB AWARD RECIPIENT: Girls Horse Club

EquinePost.com is pleased to announce the first recipient of our Best of the Web award: Girls Horse Club.

About the site:

Girls love horses. It doesn't matter if you live in the North America, South America, Europe, Asia or beyond. Girls are connected to horses and horses connect girls. Girls Horse Club was started by a group of horse-loving women who have spent their careers creating products for kids. They always dreamed of using that experience to create something they wish they had as young girls—a way to nurture the connection with horses (even if you never have a *real* horse) through stories, games, activities and more.

Why was this site chosen?

EquinePost.com reserves our Best of the Web award for sites that demonstrate excellence in both of the following categories:

Quality Graphic Design
Useful/Fun/Interesting Content

Girls Horse Club is one of those rare websites that is both a great contribution to the online horse world and an example of quality website design. The site has a clean design that is very user friendly as well as being unique and pleasing to the eye. The navigation is innovative without compromising usability. Most importantly, the site has high-quality content that encourages girls to learn about horses and to become part of a community.

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Dreamer - Inspired By a True Story
The title is a mouthful, but Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story hits the winner's circle as a warm and inspiring family film. Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks its leg during a practice run. Ordinarily that means curtains, but today Ben's daughter, Cale (Dakota Fanning), is at the track, and Ben impulsively buys the horse and loses his job in one fell swoop. The rehabilitation process is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed salve to the nearly broken family, including Ben's wife (Elisabeth Shue) and father (Kris Kristofferson). The cast is excellent, especially Fanning (who at age 11 has become a major star and was branded by Entertainment Weekly as the most powerful actress in Hollywood), and the film is well-paced by director-writer John Gatins and beautifully shot by cinematographer Fred Murphy. Surely the ultimate fate of the horse and the family won't surprise anyone, but young girls who love horses often don't need a surprise ending. They need a reason to cheer, and Dreamer delivers all the way.

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