Portal:Horses/Did you know/5

... that following show jumper Denis Lynch's Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games?
... that a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women?
... that the Texas saddlemaker Tooter Cannon's work is so prized by ranchers and rodeo performers that it is held mostly in private collections and unavailable on the open market?
... that the term maverick, referring to an animal without a brand, came from Texas land baron Samuel Maverick who was notorious for not branding his cattle?