[Carroll] Oh, girls. Is it time to eat?
Hi, Jacob.
All right.
[Carroll] How I got into horses was a pony ride.
Hey, big guy.
I was young, and I begged my mom for a horse.
[whinnies]
And she goes,
"It's a phase. You're gonna grow out of it.
This isn't a job."
Hi. Look at you.
I'm Stephanie Carroll, a ranch hand at the Tri-Circle-D Ranch.
I've worked at Disney for eight years.
So, here at the Tri-Circle-D Ranch, we have about a hundred horses.
We offer all kinds of things from pony rides for our children,
trail rides for our adults.
We do carriage rides, hayrides.
We're about 80% women.
In the horse industry, it's a big male field,
so to see the amount of women that we have is amazing.
The care is probably the most important.
We want the horses to not only look good but feel good.
All right, Gus.
It's bath time, kid.
You gotta get clean, huh? Oh.
Each individual horse is given a certain diet.
We do monthly weight checks on all of our horses.
We take pride in the way we care for them.
They have hot water. They have special soap.
It is top-notch care.
There is nothing short of amazing for these guys,
and it's important to us that they have phenomenal care
and are... happy.
That's what we're for, is the happiest horses on Earth.
Um, we're taking these guys out.
They get some free time to hang out and enjoy the grass.
And have some fun.
[Carroll kissing]
On March 11th,
we welcomed our newest addition to the Tri-Circle-D Ranch:
Lilly.
She is amazing. You know? She's only a couple of weeks old.
She loves kids. She's so inquisitive.
She's meant to be at Disney.
We let them turn out here daily. It gives them a little bit of exercise.
It's gonna prepare her for her job ahead.
Lilly is the first Cinderella pony to be born here at Walt Disney World.
She is going to play such an important role here at Disney
to becoming part of Cinderella's hitch.
We have Cinderella's carriage that pulls with the six white ponies.
It's an amazing thing to see these horses be a part of weddings.
What we look for in a Cinderella pony is confidence.
A coat. We want them to look the part.
They have to look and feel their best.
We take on different roles here.
You become the coachman, so you go from here,
being in our jeans and our shirts, to a full costume.
It's amazing.
I never knew Disney had horses except for the trolley.
Um... I ran into our manager at a barbecue restaurant.
I was working at a restaurant,
and the local feed store lady had brought our manager in.
And we striked up a conversation and hit it off right away.
He offered to tour the place,
to see the ranch and to see what we had to offer.
And just about two weeks later, I got the job at Disney.
This is Titan. He is one of our gray Percheron.
He weighs about just over 2,000 pounds.
He can pull two to three times his body weight.
[Durrance] There's so many people that have never seen a horse this big.
They're down here, and he's way up here, and it's just amazing.
And he stands and loves every bit of it.
[Carroll] He's gonna pull the Main Street trolley.
Titan, step.
[hoofs clop]
One-way trip to the Castle, folks.
It's a one-way trip to Cinderella's Castle.
Climb aboard.
All clear.
Titan. Titan, step up.
Look at the crowd.
People are amazed when they see these horses.
Their eyes light up and their phones come out and pictures are started.
And year after year, people bring their kids back to take pictures
and to see the same horses.
I do see myself in a lot of the kids.
Would you like to meet Titan?
All right, come right up here. We'll get his head down.
There you go.
[Carroll] They're smiling and happy, and they are amazed by the horses.
[Durrance] Yeah.
-[man] He's beautiful. -[Durrance] You like him?
It's amazing seeing how kids react to the Cinderella ponies,
saying, "I've seen them in the movies."
We play that role.
We play that part in making fantasy reality.