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B. Petitioners’ Arabian Horse Activity
1. Petitioners’ Early Involvement With Horses
Petitioner owned a half Arabian gelding in his youth. He
trained the horse and entered it in calf roping exhibitions from
1942 to 1954.
In 1971, petitioners attended an Arabian horse show in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Petitioner had never seen a purebred
Arabian horse and was very impressed. Petitioners ascertained
the price of some of the horses at the show. They also visited
several Arabian horse farms and looked at the facilities. They
wanted to own and raise Arabian horses someday.
Also in 1971, petitioners bought for pleasure a purebred
Arabian gelding named Alasana. Mrs. Davis and petitioners’
children learned to ride Alasana, and the children showed him in
4-H shows. Alasana died in 1985.
In 1990, Mrs. Davis visited Mountain View Arabians, an
Arabian horse farm in Colorado, that was owned by a woman in her
seventies. The owner had raised Arabian horses all her life and
was still showing horses. In 1990, petitioners visited the
McDannald Arabian farm, owned by Paul McDannald (McDannald).
McDannald trains, shows, and breeds horses, and teaches others
how to show horses. McDannald is a well-known horse trainer.
In 1990, petitioners visited two Arabian horse farms they
had visited in 1971. They preferred the McDannald Arabian farm
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