Governor of US State of Kentucky Steven L. Beshear and Prince Nawaf bin Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz, Vice President of Youth Welfare, opened on Thursday evening in the city of Lexington, Kentucky, the activities of the five-day exhibition "a Gift from the Desert" sponsored by Saudi Arabia. In press statements following the opening of the horsemanship exhibition "a Gift from the Desert", Prince Nawaf highlighted strength of Saudi-US relations and said preparations for the exhibition took three years. Prince Nawaf described the exhibition as the largest exhibition on the history of horsemanship.