Rocking Horses - Memories of Freedom

As a young child I often dreamed of riding a wildmovements, and life-like designs that bring hours of
horse across the blazing hot desert. Since we had theriding enjoyment.
opportunity to own horses, I would ride my favoriteI was in a children's furniture store the other day and
horse, Freedom, around our fenced in pasture andexperienced the coolest rocking toy. It was a
act out the dream. It is after one of these wonderfulbeautifully designed black stallion that sounded like a
horse rides that I realized that I could go down intoreal horse; from the neighing when you pulled on the
our basement and get on the old rocking horse thatreigns to the galloping sound as you bounced around.
was there. I then could ride for hours and not worryI stood there and watched as kids of all ages took
about weather, real horses being shoed, fed, orturns getting on the horse and riding. I was half
brushed. This became my way of keeping the dreamexpecting to see a store worker come out and give
of riding across the hot desert while I stayed rightthe horse a bucket of oats - it looked and sounded
there in the cool basement of our house. It isso real.
memories and dreams like this that make children'sThe way these new rockers move is incredible to
rocking horses so special. Even with the newme. Instead of old rusted springs they now have
sophisticated designs of horses that rock back andstrategically placed shocks that move horizontally,
forth, up and down, and side to side, the old springvertically, and laterally. My kids said it felt like riding a
driven rocking device (shaped like a horse) stilltop of a real horse at times. These shocks along with
captivates all children alike. The cool thing about thethe correct design of the horse allows for an ultimate
horse rockers of today is the sound effects, realisticriding experience.