Friday April 20th

In a rapidly changing economic environment, breeders and owners of Arabian horses worldwide must be keep abreast of developments in equine law and taxation. Few attorneys are as capable as Paul Husband in sorting out the opportunities from traps. From unique opportunities for non-US citizen-investors in the horse business to the handling of Foreign Bank Account reports, Paul will tackle the global dimensions of US tax law.  He will also discuss the status of Bonus Depreciation and Section 179 expensing, as well as describe ways to avoid the trap of the IRS Employment Tax Audit. For those involved in the Arabian horse industry, these can be challenging times. Paul Husband’s early-bird seminar is guaranteed to be on-target, relevant and highly informative.

Since 1990, Dr. Shelle has been collecting data on the MSU Arabian horse herd to establish estimated breeding values (EBV) on conformational traits. Dr. Shelle and his colleague Dr. Dennis Banks have been collecting data not only from the core herd at MSU, but also from the many generations of foals that have been produced over the last 21 years. Ten years ago MSU started adding data from the herd at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center at Cal Poly Pomona. They have also entered data from Bazy Tankersley’s Al-Marah breeding program, respected as the second longest continuous breeding program in the U.S. Michigan State University has one of the longest continuous Arabian horse breeding programs in the U.S., having been established in the 1940s. Since that time, these horses have served as breeding stock, training animals for countless students, show horses, and research horses. Dr. John Shelle, who obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University, now heads the Horse Research and Training Center at the university. Additionally, he is the co-chair and Coordinator of Undergraduate Education within the Department of Animal Science.

Saturday April 21st

Ansata was founded in 1958 by Donald and Judith Freni Forbis after they met and married in Turkey. Since that time, the Forbises have continuously lived and traveled in the Middle East. Recognizing the archetypical and genetic value of the Egyptian Arabian, they imported their first foundation stock from Egypt in 1959 including the Nazeer son, *Ansata Ibn Halima, and several Nazeer daughters. These horses re-established the popularity of Egyptian Arabians in America and today Ansata bloodlines and the "Ansata Look" are treasured globally.  This seminar will trace how the Forbises helped reawaken the western and the Arab world to the joy of the Egyptian Arabian horse. They dreamed, and made their dreams and those of others come true. Judi Forbis is universally renowned and respected as one of the leading authorities on Arabian horse history, heritage and breeding.

Dr. McCue graduated from veterinary school at the University of California, Davis in 1986. He subsequently completed an internship in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and a residency in Equine Reproduction at the University of California, Davis. He received a PhD in Comparative Pathology, with an emphasis on reproductive endocrinology and ovarian pathology in the mare, from UC-Davis in 1992, and joined the faculty at Colorado State University in 1994. Dr. McCue coordinates the Clinical Broodmare, Foaling and Embryo Transfer Services at the Equine Reproduction Laboratory, Colorado State University. He also attends to dystocias, high risk pregnancies and other equine reproduction cases at the university's Veterinary Teaching Hospital. He is the author or co-author of over 200 refereed publications, textbook chapters, scientific proceedings chapters and abstracts. He has received numerous teaching awards at CSU and has been featured on MSNBC (NBC Nightly News).