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  • Horse herpes outbreak forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies

    05/27/2011 12:59:31 PM PDT · by billorites · 44 replies
    KSL.com ^ | May 26, 2011 | Nadine Wimmer and Wendy Leonard
    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...