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SUPPORT: Joyce Goldfield, who founded the Halleck Creek Riding Club to help enrich the lives of disabled children through horseback riding, is hoping to raise $20,000 to publish a book about the history of the club.   David Briggs

On a sunny July afternoon, a 13-year-old girl was lifted out of her wheelchair and eased into a saddle. Her legs, wracked by cerebral palsy, stretched rigidly along the neck of her horse as she settled into place. But after half an hour of riding in a covered arena, her tight muscles had loosened. She headed out on a trail ride with feet relaxed in the stirrups and knees clamping her mount’s sides like the…