Sort of follow on from the 'what horse do you not like thread' arab lovers especially

Any excuse....

Spud:
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Felix:
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These two are full brothers. Dad is Egyptian/Spanish/Polish and mum is Polish/Crabbet/Old English

Then there's Harry:
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Dad is Spanish, mum is Polish/Crabbet/Old English.

Then there's part bred Wolf:
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His arab lines come via dad, who has Polish/Davenport/Crabbet ancestry.
 
ahh I so desperately love arabs, but everyone I know is SO against them
they either thinking they're fragile dainty fairies who need to be stabled 24/7, or complete nasty psychos.

When I can get a job (if ever,sigh. ) my wish is to buy an arab as my first horse even though everyone thinks I'm mad to even ever consider an arab.
But I'm in so in love with them I don't think I could look at anything else, personally the more "sea horse" head the better - I'm so taken with them that I actually find most other breeds w/o the dish face "ugly" - bad I know haha.

I honestly can't understand why theres so much hatred for the breed,especially for their looks - I think they're perfect!

very much in love with your felix, EstherYoung ♥__♥ he has such a cheeky cute look.
 
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sharon1959 said:
They are pretty but its the legs I dissaprove of.
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I have just retired my gelding (by General Gold) at 26.
He has been ridden since 4 by us. His mileage is in the tens of thousands. He has never been lame or had leg problems and has done it unshod.
Which bit of his legs would cause you problems? I am struggling to see that his legs could have served him any better. :)
 
I think the dislike of them is, to a large extent, from people who cannot get on with an animal that has an opinion, is far more inteligent than they are and needs asking rather than telling.
 
cbmcts said:
Ok, non arab person here but IME

Crabbet - short and square types, typey head but not exaggerated, usually decent weight carriers but not as "pretty" as the Egyptians. My favourites, all the ones I know are nice sensible horses that will give everything a go.

Egyptians - slight, narrower but still got the big ribcage, very seahorse heads. Usually very, very showy .Often scatty :D (sorry)

Polish - Taller, athletic but sturdy types, plainer heads. Tend to be sensible but stubborn on occasion...

Spanish - only met a few but they were similar in temp to the Egyptians, just sturdier - I wasn't that keen on them!

Russian - similar to Polish in looks, don't think I've personally met any...

I love riding an Arab but always said I'd never own one. Having a horse that's much cleverer than you is scary :)
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What about the Bahraini, what are they like please?
FDC
 
Bahrainis are almost Iberian looking, and they're much bigger and more solid than 'regular' arabs. Also probably much closer to their desert roots than 'regular' arabs too.
 
I have a pure bred arab mare from Egyptian, Spanish and Crabbet lines. I have owned for almost 10 years; the first couple of which I thought she didn't like me! But then she decided I was a nice person and is now my best friend. She comes to my call in the field, is incredibly loyal, very brave (never spooks out on a hack), athletic, and is probably one of the best behaved horses on the yard.

She was bred as a show horse (the great Aliha is her grandmother)- she won at county level as a yearling, but was sold to a non-showing home after which I got her. I have no interest in showing and have done dressage, show jumping, cross-country, fun-rides etc with her.

She looks very much like Aliya's horse - perhaps (esp with the name!) they are related?
 
Sharon1959
I've seen more cobs with leg problems than I've seen arabs with leg problems. Infact, I've never seen an arab with leg problems!! My mare never had a lame day in her life, no splints, no swollen tendons and feet as hard as iron. The arab is the hot climate edition of our Exmoor ponies. Evolved over thousands of years to survive. They are as tough as can be, that is why they excel in endurance. You can keep your flimsy cobs!!
 
I own 5 Arabs & not one is the same as the other lol. Ive not picked them for any particular reason, usually more circumstance than anything. My old boy Navaho (Kalabar Mistanny x Hista Beaudeyna) is the most un-arabby that i have, but hes a lovely horse & would love to find another with his breeding, sadly i seem to have drawn blanks on that score. This is him in his younger days...as you can see, not very Arabby at all.

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Northash Pharaoh (Atmosferic x Northash Caroline) is currently out on loan, as we didnt see eye to lol. Nice boy but can be very opinionated!

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My youngster is Milad (Ali Nebal x Talitha Bint Abishai), who is 3. Very accident prone, but a lovely friendly boy, who is very curious about everything :)

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Then we have April, who was a complete surprise...please ban me from the horse sales. Shes got lovely breeding, by Crystal Silver & out of G Pia, a very very good buy for us that day!

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& lastly is AA Armani (Estasan Ibn Estopa X Khylie) who is on loan to us, hes been a bit of a God send, hes got my daughter back into riding who had given up & she is totally smitten with him, he has also been brilliant with my partner who had lost his confidence. He is very much your typical show type Arab (apart from having a mad mane!)

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Sorry none of them are posed pics...im better at spur of the moment type ones :) As you can see a really old molly mixture! All very lovely & all very different!
 
Clutha, Khairho x Sherfah, 96% Crabbet, 100% GSB

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Arian Dawn, Indian Idyll x Clutha, 98% Crabbet, 100% GSB

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At a year:

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Two years old:

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lhotse said:
Sharon1959
I've seen more cobs with leg problems than I've seen arabs with leg problems. Infact, I've never seen an arab with leg problems!! My mare never had a lame day in her life, no splints, no swollen tendons and feet as hard as iron. The arab is the hot climate edition of our Exmoor ponies. Evolved over thousands of years to survive. They are as tough as can be, that is why they excel in endurance. You can keep your flimsy cobs!!
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The legs are like spindles and some Arabs are crazy.Theyre not weight carriers. I dont like them and at the end of the day thats my choice to make,not yours.I dont tell you,you have to like cobs.My cob has never had foot trouble.
EACH TO THEIR OWN. Dont have a dig at me just because I dislike Arabs.
 
Oh no! Another excuse to post Arab photos! Woe is me...
This is Crystal Fire (by Crystal Silver out of Someone Special). 16hh when grown up.
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This is Celebrity Psyche (by Padrons Psyche out of Benraz Beyshana), who I admit does have a seahorsey head, I like his looks but probably wouldn't want a more extreme head than his. Please excuse the quality of the action shot, I had my camera on the wrong setting, but I still like it. He's much more dainty and only 14.3 hh.
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cloball said:
It seems a lot of people dislike arabs these days particularly because of their heads (which I must admit to do seem to be getting progressively stretched and sea horse like) so I think we should have a thread to show off how beautiful arab horses can be.
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Just wondering how the above turned into a thread where someone would come on to go on about why they don't like the breed? Just a bit puzzled, why bother? Different if the op had said "who does and doesn't like Arabs and why?".
 
sharon1959 said:
The legs are like spindles and some Arabs are crazy.Theyre not weight carriers. I dont like them and at the end of the day thats my choice to make,not yours.I dont tell you,you have to like cobs.My cob has never had foot trouble.
EACH TO THEIR OWN. Dont have a dig at me just because I dislike Arabs.
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No-one is 'having a dig' but what you are posting is rubbish. Yes, arabs will have 'less bone' than many breeds but as said before the density of long bones is much stronger in arabs than other breeds. This, plus the compactness of the back due to having fewer vertebrae actually mean that a fit arab is well up to weight.

By all means have opinions on your favourite breeds, we all do, but you can't expect people not to have their own opinions on your rather ignorant and incorrect generalisations. So you have met 'some crazy arabs'. Well so have I. And crazy warmbloods. And crazy cobs. And crazy shetlands. Need I continue?
 
Tinypony said:
This enthusiastic little man is welsh x arab, which I think can be a really nice cross.
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Lovely! What type of welsh is in his pedigree. I have seen some lovely A and B crosses and a few D crosses; the D's have all been rather 'hot' although very talented. :)

ETA I found this fella for sale recently
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Bearing in mind he is a recent convert from reining, and is not quite 'correct' in his way of going at times, I think he shows real talent :)
 
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Rhino, his sire was called Sharoun Dell and his dam was Sweet Minibelle. I don't know anything about those bloodlines at all, so if anyone does I'd be interested to hear more. He was bred in West Sussex, born 1994.
 
Can I just say, despite having a KWPN Gelderlander (WB) and an Ardennes(CB) (which do have an injection of Arab blood, see her ears!) I love the beautiful Arabs, especially the Bahraini ones. But I wonder about the really "seahorse" headed ones, does it cause any problems? Saw some lovely Arab horses when we went to Dubai, stunning.
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sharon1959 said:
The legs are like spindles and some Arabs are crazy.Theyre not weight carriers. I dont like them and at the end of the day thats my choice to make,not yours.I dont tell you,you have to like cobs.My cob has never had foot trouble.
EACH TO THEIR OWN. Dont have a dig at me just because I dislike Arabs.
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And therein you are showing your ignorance about a breed you clearly know nothing about. I wasn't having a dig at you, just pointing out my experience of unsoundness issues in cobs as opposed to arabs. Everyone is entitled to like whatever breed they like, but to attack a breed on unfounded ideas is rather niave. There are crazy horses in every breed. Infact, on our yard, the resident gypsy cob has put more people in hospital than any of the others with her rather unpredictable behaviour. That was until she needed an operation to plate her pastern joint, and now 6 months box rest for a knackered ligament. She only does trotting around the school as well, not 30 mile hacks like my old (sound) mare did all her working life!!
 
This is Dennis, also known as Ecuador. He is 3/4 Egyptian 1/4 Crabbet/Spanish.

He's 16hh and takes a 52 inch girth. He is so laid back he is positively horizonal, although he can have his moments where he flips his tail over his back and has a good ponce.

Not a sea horse head but very pretty and very typey.
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These rider's are 5ft 10 and 5ft 11.

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Conformation

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I love arabs!! I had a lovely little arab mare many years ago and a nice Anglo too, I now own a welsh Cob - who is basically a chunky arab!! LOL
 
Yay! Dennis the Superhorse makes an appearance!

Touch wood no ill effects from my horse's seahorsey head, but I know that some of the more extreme horses can have breathing problems.
 
I used to ride a lovely arab. He was old Crabbet lines so quite the chunk by todays standards but he was great. He was a grumpy, miserable old git but he was as smart as a tack. I'll find some pictures tomorrow.

I am not an 'arab' person, but I do like the ones I have met. They are such intelligent little souls. The first horse I got back on after I smashed up my knee (9 months without riding) was an arab at work
 
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