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jumper competitions while in high school and college. After
college, Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan repurchased the horse Mrs.
Sullivan had ridden while in high school. Mrs. Sullivan has
considerable experience and knowledge with respect to cutting
horses, including familiarity with championship bloodlines and
the like. She acquired knowledge about cutting horses by talking
to horse trainers, owners, and breeders between 1969 and the
present, attending clinics, reading cutting horse periodicals,
and through her personal experiences. Although during 1992 she
held no position, Mrs. Sullivan was on the board of the Houston
Cutting Horse Association from 1973 to 1980, on the board of the
Sam Houston Horse Breeders Association from 1974 to 1979, on the
board of the Central Texas Horse Breeders Association from 1975
to 1978, a National Cutting Horse Association judge from 1975 to
1986, and a Director of the National Cutting Horse Association
from 1978 to 1980.
In conducting their horse-related activities, petitioners
also relied upon the advice and assistance of two individuals,
Olan Hightower and Sam Wilson, each of whom has earned a living
for approximately 40 years from the breeding, training, and sale
of cutting horses and other quarter horses. Mr. Wilson, with
whom petitioners boarded their horses prior to obtaining their
own facilities in 1976, operates a breeding farm on 250 acres of
land and anticipated breeding approximately 250 mares during the
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