Arabian horse

Syrian Arabs, 1893

The term Arab is a colloquial term for horses which are the appearance and the origin after Arab origin, whether they are recognized by the World Arabian Horse Organization or not. In a narrower sense, the term referred to a separate racial group within the Arab horses. In the race group of Arabs, the horses are classified, whose blood is not pure enough to qualify as a full-blooded Arabs whose proportion of foreign blood, however, is too low, assigned to one of three other races ( Shagya -Arabian, Anglo-Arabian or Arabian Half-Blood ) to become.

Features

Each division of the Arabian horse has different physical features, which run depending on the breeding goal percentage Arab whole blood (AV) and coining the respective AV parents beast, which the Arab thoroughbred is more or less close.

The breed of the Arab group has no specific breeding goal, which is why no consolidated exterior and interior features can be found here. However, since members of this racial group are often higher in the blood than the other racial groups, the features do not often similarities with those of the Arab thoroughbred on. These are described in the article on the Arabian thoroughbred.

Arabs are often very spirited. For trail riding or endurance riding they are very popular due to their high willingness to work and hardness.

Representative

To representatives of the breed group of Arabs include, for example:

• Hungarian Arabs who can not be assigned to the group of the Shagya Arabian
• Arab horses from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, whose pedigree is not fully documented
• Arabian horses from Egypt, who are not registered because of uncertain origin in the WAHO
• Individual horses of the Russian Tersker breeds that are assigned on the basis of a special position in Germany different racial groups
• Arabian horses, their origin can not be clearly resolved by the loss of the papers ( eg, due to the chaos of war )
• Offspring of the mare Nigra Zscheiplitz from the prewar stud Röblingen, especially from the former East German stock. After these horses were performed as Arabian horses, a regrouping in the breed group of Arabs was made after the determination of low allogeneic blood components.
• Colored with a proportion of Arabian breeding whole blood from about 90%. The Arabs Pintos ( Pintabians ) are a distinct breed dar. Pintabians must have over 99 % share of Arabs.