From the Royal Winter Fair Grand Prix Quadrille November 2006 Toronto, Canada.

I love to see horses and riders dance in the quadrille. Generally speaking, out here in the wild and wooly southwest, I only get to see a little of this at the Rodeo. The Santa Fe Sheriff's posse has done some nice presentations in the past. The best western quadrille (is that what one would call it? Or if it's western riding is it called something else? Educate me here, please, folks.) I've seen was a bunch of little high school girls performing in a small town on a reservation in Colorado one summer evening before our Regional Vaulting Competition. You could tell those kids had practiced their hearts out. They rode to that old 80's song Hey Mickey (listen).

So, this Canadian quadrille is just slightly more elegant than the Hey Mickey ride. But for some reason, that evening watching those local cowgirls with their paints and quarterhorses and appaloosas from the bleachers in small-town Colorado will always stand out in my mind as a thing of beauty.