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CRITICAL HORSE THEORY
In 1958, the Annual Horse Fanciers of America held their meeting in Aardmore, Oklahoma. During that meeting, the educational world in this country was set upon its ear, by a radical new concept- Critical Horse Theory.
Posited by guest speakers Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, this theory posits that without horses, almost none of the buildings, edifices and monuments we hold dear and sacred in this country could have been built. And further, without horses, plows would have sat unused, fields would have laid fallow, crops and goods not harvested, or even if produced, delayed to market. And yet today, their sacrifice and contributions go largely unnoticed.
Their radical idea was adopted strongly by a guest speaker at that meeting, world famous jockey and horse fancier Willie Shoemaker. In fact, he went even further. He claimed that if white men had just given horses more free rein, they could have built even more buildings and created more cash crops than being suppressed under the white man's thumb.
"How many Kentucky Derbys could I have won without a horse? Enough said," Willie concluded.
In 1958, the Annual Horse Fanciers of America held their meeting in Aardmore, Oklahoma. During that meeting, the educational world in this country was set upon its ear, by a radical new concept- Critical Horse Theory.
Posited by guest speakers Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, this theory posits that without horses, almost none of the buildings, edifices and monuments we hold dear and sacred in this country could have been built. And further, without horses, plows would have sat unused, fields would have laid fallow, crops and goods not harvested, or even if produced, delayed to market. And yet today, their sacrifice and contributions go largely unnoticed.
Their radical idea was adopted strongly by a guest speaker at that meeting, world famous jockey and horse fancier Willie Shoemaker. In fact, he went even further. He claimed that if white men had just given horses more free rein, they could have built even more buildings and created more cash crops than being suppressed under the white man's thumb.
"How many Kentucky Derbys could I have won without a horse? Enough said," Willie concluded.