i have lived in Springfield all my life and i have eaten at the Leland Hotel and at Red Coach Inn i also hae the recipe of the cheese sauce from the Leland tucked away in one of my cook books , my dad was friends with the man that ran the hotel and we would go as a family there to eat , i just had a pony shoe last night at a resteraunt we went to !
my favorite pony shoe is one called buffalo chicken , breaded chicken served pony style with white cheese and tabasco sauce on top of that !