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Project Committee Members:

Jerry and Marjorie Dixon

Marjorie Dixon and Corona young
Colonial Spanish Horse

Silke Schneider & Richard Felger		Silke Schneider and her mare La Reina a Colonial Spanish Horse.
		Richard Felger with Si Si a Colonial Spanish Mare.

Maureen Kirk-Detberner and Don Detberner		Maureen Kirk-Detberner and a young Colonial Spanish Horse
		Don Detberner and a young Colonial Spanish Horse

Deni Mitchell

Deni on her Colonial Spanish Horse Lucia

Becky Chandos

Becky with her horse Dan

The goal of this project is to have the Colonial Spanish Horse named as the state horse of Arizona. Our target date is late 2011 so that these magnificent horses can participate in the celebration of the Arizona centennial in 2012. This project was conceived in early 2009 by Jerry and Marjorie Dixon to honor the ancestry of their herd of Colonial Spanish Horses. They asked good friends Silke Schneider and Maureen Kirk-Detberner to join the project committee. Maureen agreed to be the project manager and started developing the project website.

In July, they approached State Representative Nancy Young Wright of District 26, to help. Rep. Nancy Young Wright proposed to the committee that state representative for District 25, Patricia Fleming sponsor the bill. Rep. Patricia Fleming, District 25, agreed to sponsor the bill and write the bill.

In November, Senator Jonathan Paton agreed to sponsor the bill in the Arizona State Senate. The "intro-set"... document with proposed bill language has been sent out to the Representatives and Senators for their input and invitation for them to sign on as sponsors. On February 2, 2010, Rep. Fleming submitted the bill and it was assigned bill number HB-2634. The House Government Committee is scheduled to hear the bill on February 16, 2010.

For more information on the Colonial Spanish Horse see the History of the Horses webpage and check out the information on Wikipedia's website.

The website was completed in September and launched in early October. The website is a group effort that also included help from family and friends. If you have any suggestions for the website please email us at horses@arizonahorseproject.com.