Show Morse F.aring Old Sport Horse racing lias been called the "sport of kings" been use it has been one of their amusements since the earliest dawn of civilization. Tho-Dimes Tho-Dimes I of t he Eighteenth Egyptian dynasty left a papyrus letter tolling of his conquest of Mesopotamia and pridir.g himself upon the acquisition of the racing horse (the Arab) and being the first to Introduce him In Afiku. Somewhat later the records tell of King Solomon buying horses from Egypt and paying us much as v.'.0(X) for some of them. Among the Greeks horse racing was Introduced Into Die Olympic games In the thirty-I thirty-I bird Olympiad (0-lS 13. C). |