1.   The horses are being groomed for the competition.

2.   Growing up in Los Angeles, Farnsworth was forced to quit school in the ninth grade during the Depression and take a job grooming horses and cleaning stalls.

3.   He groomed horses.

4.   In one scene Zorro pretends to be a servant and while grooming a horse has a poignant encounter with Elena.

5.   Since March, Whitmore has been getting up at dawn with as many as seven other troubled youths to groom horses, break camp and build campfires.

6.   The Rodericks take all the work out of riding for their guests by handling all the tack and by cooling and grooming the horses.

7.   Each horse is groomed daily and their cuts mended.