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7 unusual facts about Arabian horse


Asil

Arabian horses who have pedigrees that can be traced in every line to identifiable desert-bred horses from the Middle East.

Gervase Markham

He was a noted horse-breeder, and is said to have imported the first Arabian horse.

House of Sanguszko

Hieronymous Sanguszko (1743–1812) founded the Slavuta stud, establishing the family as breeders of Arabian horses.

Knyszyn

In the 1560s the king maintained a royal stud of over 3000 horses in Knyszyn, including large numbers of Arabian horses, among the first to be bred in northern Europe.

Slatina, Croatia

In the village of Višnjica near Slatina is the unique stud-farm of Arabian horses and Felbars.

Thomas Darley

The horse, a bay, was tall for an Arabian horse of the time was 15 hands when described by Darley in a letter to his brother dated 21 December 1703.

Thoroughbred racing in Australia

Hector, was an important Arabian horse that was imported to Australia c.1803 and whose bloodlines have survived in Australian Thoroughbred pedigrees.


Andrea Haugen

Andrea Haugen says on her Trivia page that she loves Sighthounds, Arabian horses and Oriental cats.

Bask

Bask, (1956–1979) bred at the Albigowa State Stud in Poland and foaled in 1956, was a bay Arabian stallion who was imported into the United States in 1963 by Dr. Eugene LaCroix of Lasma Arabians and became a major sire of significance in the Arabian breed.

East Bulgarian

The East Bulgarian began to be developed at the end of the 19th century at the "Kabiuk" stud farm (former Vassil Kolarov) near Shumen and at stud farm in Bozhurishte near Sofia, in Bulgaria, by crossing local horses with Arabians, Anglo-Arabians, Thoroughbreds and English half-breds.

El Mokhtar

El Mokhtar (February 9, 1971 – December 31, 1983) was an Arabian horse, and one of three black Arabian stallions used to portray "The Black" in the second Black Stallion film, The Black Stallion Returns.

German Riding Pony

The breeding of the Deutsche Reitpony began around 1965, by crossbreeding various English pony breeds, especially Welsh ponies, on Arabians, Anglo-Arabians and Thoroughbreds.

Hyde Park, Sydney

Seven Arab horses taken on board the First Fleet at the Cape Colony (now South Africa) were the first horses to be brought to Australia.

Jereed

A medium height horse is preferred because tall horses are not quick to maneuver, therefore most suitable ones are Arabian and Turkoman horses.

Lijiang pony

The economy required a more powerful pony than was found in the area, so in 1944 the Arabian, Yili, Hequ, Kabarda and small type Ardennes were introduced.

Mangalarga

In 1812, when the Junqueira family moved to São Paulo state, the topography, the forest, the local culture and the different species of deer to hunt, forced them to seek for a horse with different characteristics, by the selection or crossing, and so they started to breed the Mangalarga horse with Thoroughbred, Arabian, and American Saddlebred stallions plus a Saddlebred mare and one Lusitano stallion.

Minnesota Arabian Horse Association

The Minnesota Arabian Horse Association (MAHA) was founded in 1955 for anyone associated with the Arabian Horse in Minnesota.

Nangchen horse

These animals are said to contain no ancestry from any of the common sources for most other Tibetan pony breeds, neither Mongolian horse, Arabian nor any type of Turkish blood.


see also

Antoni Sole

He is an Arabian horse stockman, eminently of Spanish Thoroughbreds and is one of the most important collectors in the world of items related to Russian cellist Daniil Shafran.

Magnum Psyche

During the time that Michael Brown, of Hurricane Katrina fame served as the judge's and stewards commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association (now the Arabian Horse Association, Boggs was accused of participating in unnecessary cosmetic surgery on a number of horses, including surgery on the throatlatch on Magnum Psyche, which Boggs claimed was not cosmetic, but necessary to address a cribbing problem.

Minnesota Arabian Horse Association

The Arabian Horse Association officially recognizes The Minnesota Arabian Horse Association.