Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the May 2013 issue of The American Quarter Horse Journal.
AQHA Professional Horseman Charlie Cole of Pilot Point, Texas, has been determined to improve his horsemanship skills since he was a little boy in California. Growing up in Orange County, he convinced his parents to send him to boarding school when he was 12 so he could learn more about horses. His passion and determination have been rewarded with countless awards in the show ring from world championships to year-end awards, but his peers honored him at the 2013 AQHA Convention in Houston, where he was named the 2012 Don Burt Professional’s Choice Professional Horseman of the Year.
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