Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/27/11 9:46 a.m.

Horse herpes outbreak forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=15716018

FARMINGTON -- While the state has yet to officially cancel any events involving horses that might have been exposed to a local recent equine herpes outbreak, owners and arenas are taking precautions.

Because of the outbreak, contestants at the Davis County Sheriff's Mounted Posse Junior Queen Contest had to cowgirl up Thursday night without their mares.

Instead of competing on horses, as is typically the case, contestants were asked to trot around the arena with stick horses as their show ponies.

The only horses in the arena were in this bucket. "It's kind of weird, but you can't really help that the disease is going around," said former queen Savanna Steed. She said the stick horses will test the riders' knowledge of whether they know the routine, rather than letting the horse do all the work.

Stealthtercel
Stealthtercel Reader
5/27/11 9:59 a.m.

"Former rodeo queen Savanna Steed"?? They're kidding, right?

Per Schroeder
Per Schroeder Technical Editor/Advertising Director
5/27/11 10:06 a.m.

Note to self: stop kissing horses.

EvanB
EvanB GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/27/11 11:06 a.m.

Don't kiss a gift horse on the mouth.

That is how the saying went right?

pilotbraden
pilotbraden HalfDork
5/27/11 11:10 a.m.

I wonder if those horses are "stump broke"?

Duke
Duke SuperDork
5/27/11 11:35 a.m.
Stealthtercel wrote: "Former **porn** queen Savanna Steed"?? They're kidding, right?

FTFY.

Lesley
Lesley SuperDork
5/27/11 12:16 p.m.

At first I thought "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard"... then when I saw the tiaras, I thought, "carry on". It was a beauty contest, don't you know those are valuable skills that will help them later in life?

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