Fillies, colts, stallions and mares that are at the top of their game have completed the first day of competition in the largest Arabian horse show in Canada, which is being held in Brandon.

Canada’s National Arabian Championship is free to attend and runs until Aug. 16 at the Keystone Centre.

There are so many competitors, said one of the show organizers, Tex Kam, that additional stalls had to be set up on the east side of the Keystone’s parking lot.

“We’re at 325 horses entered,” Kam said. “So, we have six temporary stables outside with 180 horses there, and the rest in the other barns.

“So, total, we have 550 stalls because every horse needs almost another half a stall for their feed, tack, saddle and everything else,” said Kam, who is the vice-president of the National Arabian Bree

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