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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
ha! no. when you rodeo, all of the roughstock, the cattle in the roping events and so on are picked by lottery, hence "out of the hat". there used to be a cross country/eventing course where they required riders to swap horses. I thought that had ended, but there ya' go
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But wouldn't that then be "picking the horses name out of the hat". I'm with sneaky on this one - if I hear someone say that, I'm looking for a really big hat.