It's the kind of thing that regularly makes me put down books and never come back. Honestly, it bored me. In just 138 words, it bored the crap out of me.

Same here. Plus, I'm thinking it's a book where the ponies will be transportation and nothing else, which is not an incentive to continue reading for me.

But, having re-read the paragraph, now I'm wondering if they're wearing pants. (The riders, I mean, not the ponies!)