By Jim Jennings for The American Quarter Horse Journal
I think there’s a good chance that horse shows were started to settle an argument – a my-horse-is-better-than-yours kind of thing. Arguments like that have been the basis for a number of traditions that we know today, not the least of which is rodeo.
With that in mind, probably the first horse show was out on a ranch when two cowboys lined up their favorite cow ponies and asked another cowboy to tell them which one he liked the best. No one knows for sure about that, of course, nor does anyone know when or where the first formal horse shows took place.
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