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The story behind Pennylane Farm goes back to around
1964 when Sue Gillespie was a very young girl growing up in
Liverpool, England.
Sue's grandmother literally dragged Sue and her
brother to Sefton Park to listen to a then, unknown band, telling
the children that one day they would thank her for taking them when they
were older. Little did Sue realize at that time how true this statement would
become.
As the band became more popular, more and more people
came to hear them. Police began to attend on their magnificent
horses to control the crowds.
Sue now changed her attitude about going to the park
to listen to the band and constantly pleaded with her grandmother to
take her there. Really, Sue
only wanted to see the beautiful police horses.
One of the songs that the band played was Penny Lane
and Sue swore that when she grew up and owned her own horse farm she
would call it Pennylane Farms.
Sue and her family emigrated to Canada in 1969 and
Sue owned her first horse at the age of eleven. Within two years,
with the money from an after school job, Sue had saved enough to
purchase three more horses. She boarded someone else's horse to help
support her own four horses.
The rest is history, and every day is a learning
experience. Sue's dream became a reality and she wouldn't trade her
life style for anything else. Over the years she has learned that
each horse is as different as its owner and in order to receive
respect from these wonderful animals, you must first give it. Today
the farm is operated with her husband Al and their daughter Mandy.
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