Basic Trope: Horse-related activities are hobbies for rich people.
- Straight: The people who keep their horses at Tropington Stables are all very wealthy.
- Exaggerated: Everyone who owns a horse — even farmers and nomadic peoples — is rich.
- Downplayed: While most of the regulars at Tropington Stables are rich, Alice is the earnest Penny Among Diamonds, and she bonds with the middle-class equestrian Stacy.
- Justified: Tropington Stables is the only place one can keep horses in Tropington City, so it charges exorbitant fees that only rich people can afford anyway.
- Inverted: Only poor people associate with horses.
- Subverted:
- The Tropington Stables regulars are Mock Millionaires.
- Alice later discovers another stable where middle-class and poor people ride for leisure, and they have a Slobs vs. Snobs rivalry with Tropington.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Upon inheriting a large amount of money, Alice is also gifted a pony.
- Zig-Zagged: Some horseback riders are rich, some are poor.
- Averted: No horseback riding is shown in the work, and if there are it is not an indicator of social class.
- Enforced: The editors think Tropington City needs something to make it posh, so an equestrian center for the wealthy is added.
- Lampshaded: "Alice, you're headed to Tropington Stables? What are you, rich?"
- Invoked: Alice is rich, and takes horseback riding lessons because she believes it's a proper hobby for the wealthy.
- Exploited:
- In order to convincingly pose as a rich girl, Alice puts her horseback riding lessons to good use.
- A robber searching for targets takes a peek at the Tropington guest list.
- Defied:
- Alice is rich but refuses to take horseback riding lessons.
- Alice is poor but takes horseback riding lessons, refusing to let it remain a hobby for the rich.
- Discussed: "Alice, you're headed to Tropington Stables? You're like a rich girl in the movies!"
- Conversed: "Ever notice how the only people who ride horses in movies are rich?"
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