Ranch Horse Competition

I have a sister, just 2 years older than I, who is really into horses. She has her own little place outside of town and has been breeding and training quarter horses to be good all around ranch horses and some for cutting. At our county fair, 5 years ago, she started a ranch horse competition. Now ranch horse competitions are not unique, it's just that our county had never hosted one before.
If you don't understand what goes on at a ranch horse competition, let me explain. Someone, usually my sister in this case, comes up with "activities" that you and your horse might encounter in every day life on a ranch. For example, Jamie usually has a pattern and list of activities like open and shut a gate while mounted, cross a wooden bridge, dismount and pick up all 4 feet on your horse, load and unload your horse in a trailer, dally a rope on your saddle horn which is attached to a heavy log and do a figure 8 between cones, and always of course, work some cattle, usually cutting one away from a herd and working it (turning it) a few times on the fence line, and sometimes roping it. Of course, you have to do all this in a given time frame, usually 5 minutes! There are usually several judges that critique your riding skills, your horse skills, and your horse.
My sister organizes this event and usually participates. Often my youngest daughter competes also. There are different divisions like colts, kids, women, men, pro. Because my sister organizes it, she enlists the help of all her family. I announce and tell jokes if there is down time, my husband and mother are the timers, my eldest daughter adds scores, and my youngest daughter runs score sheets from the judges to the announcer's booth. There are people who donate cattle, people that drag the arena, people that open and shut gates; a lot of people help with the event. Hats off to all of them.
If you haven't ever been to one, I highly suggest it. It's fun and amazing to watch. Horses are just phenomenal creatures, especially when they have been trained correctly. My sister amazes me with how well she works with horses. She rarely gets bucked off. She doesn't beat them, she is just one of those people that connects. Right now she is donating one of her mares to our Children's home for therapy. Troubled children often find a lot of peace from caring for an animal, or just being able to talk to it. I think that is pretty generous of my sister.
Here is her website if you want to look at her horses. http://www.jamiesquarterhorses.com By the way, I designed her site for her. :-) It is still a work in progress and it's that time of year to update the pictures, but it still looks pretty good. I tried to keep it clean and uncluttered.