Calendar Girl Kuchina is face of September
Bordon Herald, Friday 4 October 2002

AN Oakhanger girl was picked from around 400 other hopefuls to feature in top horse calendar "My Famous Horse" with her mother's horse, Suerte. Kuchina Johnson (8), of The Old Quarry, did not expect to be one of the 12 lucky youngsters to feature in next year's calendar when she entered a national competition.

Her mum (also Kuchina) sent a photograph of her daughter with Suerte to enter. And after learning that she had won, and would be the face of September together with Suerte, Mrs Johnson said Kuchina junior was "really chuffed". "I got a phone call to say that 'we were on a shortlist of 400 but I didn't think anything more of it," she said. "It was a nice surprise to find that she had been chosen."

Mrs Johnson said her family had been keen to get hold of a copy of the calendar. "Everybody knows what they are getting for Christmas," she said.