This inaugural conference was the brain-child of the Equine History Collective (EHC), with support and sponsorship of the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. The conference, held Nov. 30-Dec. 2, brought together scholars, public historians, and archivists with an interest in equine research to demonstrate “Why Equine History Matters.”

The keynote speaker for was Dr. Richard Nash author of “‘Honest English Breed:’ The Thoroughbred as Cultural Metaphor” (in The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World).