Well...  I have been learning to ride a horse for the last 3 or 4 weeks, from a girl who lives on a farm that hosts rodeo events. She is an excellent rider and has won some junior championships I think. I met her because my family runs food vending for the events. Anyway, today they had a barrel racing event, and I was invited to participate.<br/><br/>For this event, three barrels were placed in the arena, and you had to ride your horse in a pattern that circled all three barrels and then returned to the starting gate without knocking them over in as fast a time as possible. On my practice run I killed two of the barrels :P<br/><br/>On my actual run though, just as I rounded the second barrel s kid popped one of those loud streamers things and it startled my horse. As I said, I am still learning, and the horse threw me and my leg was broken.<br/><br/>Even so, riding that horse in that event was one of the most exhilarating things I have ever done, and, though I do not plan to ride professionally, I do plan to get back on a horse and ride it in local rodeos from time to time as soon as I recover well enough to do so :)