Back Row (all standing) L-R: Dave Tosh, Willy Sigmon, Charlie Lockhart, Rick Stark, Bill Stoner, Jerry Freeman, Bob Felts, Judy Starr, Stanley Hecht, Jim Beard, and Dave Yocum

Third Row (all standing) L-R: Jim Talbert (blue shirt), Carroll Taylor (tan jacket), Karen Bartels England (dark dress), Gloria Pulliam Leeds, Betty Moore Hagen, Diana Shorb Eyre (lady in tan outfit), Judy Hendrian Wittenauer (colorful jacket), Janice Duncan Ford, Megan Elizabeth Nixon Rainey (camel tan outfit), Patsy Forcum (purple top), Brenda Palian Tabor (lady in blue outfit just back of Alice's right shoulder), Carolyn Hungness (gray sweater), Kay Gray (very dark sweater), Cheryl Garver Schmidt (print jacket), Linda Vance, Wanda Dillinger, Mignon Strickland (purple outfit), Shirley Morenz Taylor, Helen Waller Roman, Terry Musgrave (standing in back), --21--, --22--, Bob (Skip) Mueller, Jan Quigle Frede (lady in dark outfit), and Steve Mumma

Second Row (seated) L-R: Sam Dempster (seated on stool), Janet Wicker Dobbertin, Linda Tate Nelson, Gloria Shields Bates, Betty Fuqua Harris, Sandi Rutherford Esworthy, Jean Willms Holderby, Alice Eversole, Marilyn Schmidt Harris, Nancy Taylor Wade, Marilyn Chaney, Sharon Essex Walter, and Phil Blankenburg (kneeling in dark jacket)

Front Row (seated) L-R: Roger Campbell, Ed McQuality, Bob Gendry, Dale Coulter, John Kapernick, Pat Reed, and Julian Ridlen

Khemonfire was a horse whose mother I owned and I owned her mother's mother too ... Khemonfire's grandmother. It's a combination of names of sires and dams. Khemonfire's daddy was a prolific stallion that produced 2,500 foals ... most all by artificial insemination. His name was Khemosabi ... a famous Arabian Stallion now passed away. Her mother was my mare Fireazon ... hence ... Khemonfire. No Arabian horse can have the same name as another horse ... ever. So you have to research names to get an original one. Even the horses passed away ... their names can't be used ... everyone is original.

Next show is the first week in December. Khapri Sun is huge for an Arabian ... tall and weighs about 1350 lbs. Most Arabs are much smaller and a thousand pounds or less. But he's the biggest wimp you ever saw. He gets nervous and depends on the rider to keep him "safe" so I have to make sure he's comfortable, not scared or nervous and not hot or irritated. When he is good, he is hard to beat but if he is upset he kind of falls apart. He is a funny horse but the best horse I've ever had. I've had so many offers to sell him but it's taken me 25 yrs to get a horse this good and I'm not letting him go. He's a one in a lifetime find.

Khemonfire won this 1999 Ill State Fair Trophy for the Land of Lincoln born and bred Horse. Amateur Western Pleasure.

Land of Lincoln Breeders Award in Amateur Western Pleasure Mare or Stallion. Illinois State Fair. Khemonfire won this Award 5 yrs in a row 1997-2002

Khapri Sun placed in the Top Ten of his class in the Annual Scottsdale Arabian Horse - Feb 2009

Nov. 2009 1st Place & Championships Ribbons won at the Scottsdale Fall Festival Show by Khapri Sun