Katy McLaughlin

Katherine "Katy" McLaughlin is the main protagonist of the movie Flicka. She is a close friend of Miranda Koop, daughter of Rob and Nell McLaugh, sister of Howard, and owner of Flicka.
== History ==
Katy McLaughlin has been sent by her financially strapped parents to a prestigious private school on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Her father, Rob, runs the ranch he inherited from his dad in the state's remote mountain region. He dreams of sending Katy to college whereas he wants his son, Howard, to stay and work with him. His wife Nell wonders whether her husband is too rigid in his ideas about what is best for their children. A gardener, she tends to go with the flow and to wait for the seeds to bloom in their own way and in their own time.
When she comes home for a break, Katy tries to avoid telling her parents that she has not applied herself in school. She just doesn't believe that she needs to go to college since horses and ranching are what make her soul sing. Her first morning back, she takes one of the horses out for an early morning run. The horse is spooked by a mountain lion, and she is thrown. Just when it looks like the dangerous animal will attack her, a beautiful wild black mustang chases it away. Katy falls in love with the mustang and is determined to bring her to the ranch to safety. But her father says he can't risk having a wild horse among the quarter horses they are raising. Their ranch is barely breaking even. Katy is shocked to learn that Rob has entertained the idea of selling their land to one of the developers who would divide it into subdivisions and build houses for rich people.
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