With all due respect, showing horses in all parts of Park City etc. or even raising livestock is not the same as jamming 3000+ people of which 1200 kids ages 4-16 with possible cuts and scrapes into a horse barn only to wrestle on a potentially unsafe surface! Take your son, have him roll around on the mat barely clothed with a few scrapes at the end of the tournament 3600 times at 3 minutes a pop or roughly 180 hours and then let’s see what he catches. My point is taking one individual and his/her experiences is not a fair way to summarize the risk for everyone in there! Here is a concept address the perception that there is a risk, communicate what is being done to protect everyone and make the tournament better. Not simply take the attitude don't like it don't go!