American flags decorate ceiling and supporting posts of each seating section. Many people are seated in the boxes and general admission seats, but hundreds line the railing of the arena to watch as the judging begins. Loula Long will be seen flashing by with her fast horses and stylish vehicles, and the crowd will roar approval as she speeds around and around the arena. A carpeted center of the floor houses loud speakers and the tables of the judges, brought from top animal husbandry departments of universities nationwide. Ribbons will be awarded to horses.
Riders stand at the heads of each horse.
They have already shown their confirmation, style and disposition circling the arena before judges and spectators. The American Royal Horse Show, according to the late Russell Sage Sr., architect for the Kansas City Stock Yards Co., began in 1899. E.P. Weld, Ovid, Mo. And M.H. Gentry, Sedalia, Mo., vice presidents, and Allen Thompson, Nasua, Mo., superintendent. This year's horse show will be held in the Kemper Arena, and live stock judging in the old American Royal building, as pictured.