Karachay horse due place being mentioned in the State stud books and official lists of species of the USSR and Russia in the 1990s. In 1998 a group of Karachay-Cherkessiya`s horsemen with three Karachay horses ascended the east top of the mountain Elbrus, making an unprecedented act. In 1999 the horsemen ascended west top of the highest mountain in Europe. The Karachay horses' is thus strong with strong and adapted limbs to climbing mountains. Special credit goes to an expert on horse breeding named Klych Geriy Urusov who was the mastermind of Elbrus conquest on horseback. At the present time Karachay horse
Mt. San Antonio College Rho Pi tournaments and won first place Individual Events Sweepstakes, fourth place Debate Sweepstakes, and first place Overall Sweepstakes. In 2011, the team won the Sylvia Mariner Perpetual Sweepstakes Award for earning accumulative points – an honor Mt. SAC last won 12 years beforehand in 1999, and Coach John Vitullo won the prestigious Distinguished Service Award, which is the highest honor awarded to a college speech coach. Mt. SAC's choral music department includes the award-winning Chamber Singers. Notable achievements include "Choir of the World" in 2007 at the famed Eisteddfod International Music Competition in Wales. In addition to their world