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The Kentucky Horse Park
The Kentucky Horse Park is a working horse farm/theme park and equine competition facility dedicated to man’s relationship with the horse. The park is an agency of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet that hosted nearly 900,000 visitors and campers, as well as 15,000 competition horses in more than 100 special events and horse shows in 2008. The park is home to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games and the National Horse Center, which comprises more than 30 national and regional equine organizations.
A Gift from the Desert: the Art, History and Culture of the Arabian Horse will be held from May 29 through Oct. 15 at the Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse, a Smithsonian Affiliate in Lexington, Ky.
The exhibition, presented by the Saudi Arabian Equestrian Federation, will feature nearly 400 objects from Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan and Turkey, many of which have never before left their native countries or been on exhibit in the United States.
Tickets are $21 for adults and $11 for children. The general public can obtain more information on the exhibition or the museum by contacting the International Museum of the Horse at 859-259-4232 or visiting www.giftfromthedesert.com.
The Kentucky Horse Park is open daily March 15 to Oct. 31, and Wednesday through Sunday, Nov. 1 to March 14.
