London: The majority of world capitals host Arabian horse beauty contests as the Arabian horse is the only one of the horses in the world whose associations in all continents of the world have been named after it.
The exhibition of “Horse from Saudi Arabia to Ascot” has concluded in the British Museum in London after 131 days from its opening and has been visited by 219,000 visitors.
The exhibition has been supported and patronized by Prince Khalid bin Abdullah bin Abdulrahman; Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed, Minister of Education; Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, President of Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities; Saudi Equestrian Fund; King Abdulaziz Public Library; Saudi Embassy in the United Kingdom, and the British Museum.
The exhibition has been patronized by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain to mark the Diamond Jubilee; Prince Andrew has participated in its opening, and Princess Anne has visited it.
The exhibition, which was opened on May 23, attracted in the last week 13,000 visitors.
In statements to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), senior visitors to the exhibition have highlighted the aspects of beauty of thoroughbred Arabian horse that will put it at the top of the most important types of horses in the world and the most attractive ones.
They included former director of Middle East affairs at the museum and secretary of the exhibition Dr. John Peretz; assistant private secretary to Britain’s Queen Doug King; British Foreign Office Minister for Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt; Baroness Morris Bolton; former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former chairman of Saudi-British Friendship Society Sir Alan Munro; German ambassador to the United Kingdom George Jomgarden; Secretary of Department of Syriac and Babylonian civilization Nigel Thales.
