Scottsdale, Arizona... different shows, different years, different times, different horses, different cameras, lotsa fun.

My personal preference is for the American Quarter Horse, but there's a lot to admire in Arabian horses, too.  It happens that I lived near an enormously popular annual Arabian horse event, where I sometimes took pictures.  None of these horses was mine.  None of these people was known to me personally.  They are just some of my memories.

As you can probably tell, I like cutting.  It's one of the few horse show classes in which tha animal does real, practical, honest-to-gosh work.  Who wins doesn't depend on showy tack or costumes, just on good, sound work.  It just requires a horse that really knows its stuff and a rider who knows enough to sit on his pockets and mind his own business.

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At left, singer/actor/impressionist, John Davidson, cutting.  1971