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Show Arabian Horse Show Set July 20-21 At County Grounds The hardy little horses that changed the history of the West the legendary Arabians will put their best hooves forward on July 20-21 at the Salt Lake County Fairgrounds, 4900 South State, Murray. Occasion will be the ninth annual an-nual All-Arabian Horse Show which will spotlight more than 250 of the finest Arabian horses in the west. G. Easton Brown, American Fork, president of the Utah Arabian Ara-bian Horse Club, and Noy Chris-tofferson, Chris-tofferson, Lehi, show chairman, said there will be horses from nearly every state in the west and noted that there are now more Arabian horses in Utah and California than in all of Arabia. The show officials said the event is being held during the Days of '47 celebration in Salt Lake City this year because the Arabian horses played such a vital role in changing the west. They pointed out that not only were the Arabs the first horses, since pre-historic times, to set hoof on New World soil in the fifteenth century, but they were the first horses ever ridden by American Indians. It was not until un-til the Indians stole the Arabian horses from the Spaniards that they became mounted warriors and had any real power over the white invaders. Mr. Brown explained that it was these Indian ridden Spanish bars or mustangs (as the Arabian came to be known (that almost defeated the pioneers. The beau-ful beau-ful little war horses could exist on desert forage, go without water and climb like goats and it took the U. S. government, with its cavalry and guns to finally defeat the Indians and the Arab ponies. |
