Fifty-Six Years in the City: Washington International Horse Show Jumps to New Heights

Fifty-Six Years in the City: Washington International Horse Show Jumps to New Heights

For Immediate Release Washington, D.C., November 22, 2014 - For one week each October, the Penn Quarter neighborhood around Verizon Center in downtown Washington, D.C. is transformed into a festival of horses. Streets are closed for stabling and community events, and pedestrians and vehicles make way for the arrival of hundreds of horses - some of the finest in the world - to compete at the Washington International Horse Show (WIHS), the country's most prestigious metropolitan indoor horse show and a D.C. tradition since 1958.  WIHS wrapped up its 56th year, one of the most exciting...

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