First Time at Quarter Horse Congress

On Sunday October 12^th I went to Quarter Horse Congress for the first time with my mom, brother, and sister.  I know, it’s amazing…I’m 18 and have had horses forever and have never been to Congress.  Crazy, right?  So we get there and it’s incredible how much stuff there is there!  We spent over 2 hours in the Bricker building alone just looking at all the shops in there.  I can’t believe how expensive some of the stuff is! Like seriously, who needs a $4,000 shirt or an $18,000 saddle?!  We also went and watched the hunters over fences…if that’s not the biggest disgrace on the planet I don’t know what is.  Those horses literally loped around a course of fences and hopped over them.  They didn’t have any forward motion, no form over fences, and no lead changes!! How in the world can they even dare to call themselves “hunters?!”  I could only watch about 10 of those awful horses before going and watching about 20 minutes of the halter mares class.  Some of those horses are incredible!  It was a pretty fun day.  I got to see new things and experience this new event.