"Quarter horses have ALWAYS had something to do with cows." OMG! I can't believe you wrote that! They've only been used for ranch and cattle work since about the 1920s or 1930s. Before that, they were race horses, exclusively. They weren't AQHA Quarter Horses in the 1600s, but they were Quarter Horses, nonetheless. Haven't you ever read any of the history books on QHs and their origin? Nye? Denhardt? Mackay-Smith? I can recommend some really good ones.