do,old fashioned Arabs still exsist?

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As a life time Arab lover it seems increasingly hard to find old fashioned sturdy sensible types of weight carrying riding horses. lots of slight,speed merchants or "Fairy" horses. See the same happening to Sec d's, now overexcited with shallow bodies just bred to "show" in the ring.Very sad to see the changes and hope a few breeders are still sticking to type and temperament rather than "fashion"
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Mines a good old fashioned crabbet - he's 15.1 and a right chunky monkey! And I use him for dressage, SJ, XC etc, none of this stupid flying wild on the end of a long lead rein! Very much a riding horse!

My horses dam (Desert Romance) is even chunkier, a lovely mare who I believe has done a lot of dressage, endurance etc, and his sire (Shogun), although smaller and slighter and used mainly for showing was not one of the stringy types, and again was a lovely *riding* horse.
 
My fiend has a stud down in kent. She had an advert in the Arab magasine that was based on her horses being more than just pretty faces
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Pics of arabs eventing and being driven. Most of her lot are pretty solid, her new stallion is my old mares foal and she was a chunky girl. I used to pull her mane, plait it and take her hunting, no one realised she was an arab!

Hate the way they breed for these very showy arabs, some of them have faces that are so dished I don't see how their nasal passages aren't affected!
 
Mine is a solid four-square 15.3 pure Polish Arab. Plenty of bone, a deep girth and only a slightly dished face. I agree I don't like the very showy Arabs with seahorse heads and bug eyes.
 
The show world has a lot to answer for, I don't like these "modern" arabs. I think it's the dumbing down effect tbh, everyone wants a fairytale horse. Same thing has happened to friesians, mostly you see stupidly leggy specimins with swan necks and bad attitudes. They're FARM horses (not acctually a coaching breed surprisingly) and should be short, stocky, leg at each corner types.

Same thing happened to shires (my particular bug bare), they're now stupidly leggy, narrow and often firey. They couldn't do a days work if they tried. It is acctually scary looking at shires from even 20 years ago....

And don't get me started on welsh cobs (although the section D has more split into two types rather than the true type dissapeared. I am very much of the "if it's over 15.2 its not a welsh cob" brigade!)
 
Ive got two 'old fashioned' arabs, english and crabbet bloodlines
with good confirmation etc unfortuntaely the ones that win in the show ring these days are alot different
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Another one with a "Chunky Monkey" arab here. My 15'1 Crabbet boy has the broadest chest you've ever seen (unlike many in the show ring), really well-sprung ribs and, although his face isn't dished either, he's obviously all Arab! I've never bothered showing him, because much as I love my Arabs I know he wouldn't win because he's nothing like the fashionable type (also because I can't stand the Arab showing scene anyway).

When I bought him as a foal, I went to a little known stud that didn't feature on the show scene either (I wasn't prepared to waste my money on a "fashionable" Arab) - and my little lad is fulfilling everything I ever wanted from him and more.

http://62.49.124.34/RF/20080719Windsor/imagepages/image2269.html

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PS. My other Arab boy in my avatar is quite the opposite - with an extremely dished face and narrow chest (which you can see in the avatar). He's a straight Egyptian. I don't show him either - although he's much more of the type judges seem to prefer.

When you look at my two boys together, it's hard to believe that they're the same breed!
 
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