A deadly strain of a fast-spreading horse virus that's shown up in nine Western states — where cases have doubled in the last week — has forced contestants vying for the title of "posse junior queen" in one Utah county to ride stick horses to demonstrate their cowgirl skills.
Use of the pretend horses, made of straight sticks and fabric horse heads, comes as some other horse events scheduled for the Memorial Day weekend in Utah have been cancelled. The outbreak of the equine herpes virus, which is highly contagious among horses, started at an Ogden, Utah, horse show earlier this month.
Potential posse junior queens were asked to trot around with the stick horses as a test of whether they knew the routine, which is usually performed by the show horse, former queen Savanna Steed told the Salt Lake City television station.
Not much is more pathetic than watching these prance girls around the field pretending to be on a real horse. Hey and it's a lot more work because you have to be doing all the work for your horse. Isn't that taking care of a doll instead of a real baby. And I remember when I was a kid I used to pretend to smoke candy cigarettes. But never in front of an audience.
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