Arabian
Bud Adams - A Pioneer in the Arabian World
By Priscilla Dance
Feb 7, 2005, 08:48

Jo Pollart and Bud Adams married on November 5 at the Central United Methodist Church in downtown Phoenix. After the ceremony, a white horse-drawn carriage took them to a wedding reception at the Camelback Inn; approximately 100 friends and family attended.

The carriage reflected Bud’s involvement of over 50 years with the Arabian horse industry. Bud Adams, born in 1927, was raised on a ranch in New Mexico. He became a school teacher and coach at Highland High. In 1950, he got his first Arabian horse. From that beginning, he became involved in the Arabian industry. First, he was president of the Arabian Horse Association in New Mexico. In 1955, Bud brought a trailer full of horses from New Mexico to the first Scottsdale Arabian show at the Biltmore. In 1979, Bud and his wife Louise moved lock, stock, and barrel to the Adams Ranch on Cactus Road in Scottsdale. As part of his involvement with the association, he was on the Scottsdale Show commission for 15 years. In addition, he spent several years as a regional director for region 7 (Arizona, Nevada, and Utah) and was on the commission for the Arabian Nationals.

While they were in New Mexico, Bud trained and showed his own horses. After he moved to Arizona, he used trainers Chuck Kibler, Peter Witte, and Joanne Fox. The Adams Ranch was a state-of-the-art facility, complete with indoor arena. Bud’s two foundation stallions, Bask Flame and Top Contender, sired many champions. Louise died in 1994 of congestive heart failure and Bud began to feel he’d been in the business long enough.

"I thought I’d like to see some other places and to go down the road without a trailer," he said. He sold the property in Scottsdale but not before he donated the arena to Colorado State University. "This way, it would go on benefiting the horse business," he said.

Nowadays, he and Jo, his companion of ten years, travel all over the country. They go to stock shows and PBR events. He and Jo are involved in the Resistol Relief Fund for the bull riders (PBR). The fund assists injured bull riders and their families. "You can take the boy out of the country but not the country out of the boy," he said. "I’m doing what I always wanted to do."


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