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

Here are the two that I have been lucky enough to be acquainted with

Indi, my first ride after smashing up my knee (even though I was only riding him because he'd chucked off a customer)

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And the grumpy ginger beast that I knew well :)

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jesstickle said:
Here are the two that I have been lucky enough to be acquainted with

Indi, my first ride after smashing up my knee (even though I was only riding him because he'd chucked off a customer)

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And the grumpy ginger beast that I knew well :)

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They both look stunning! Never really took much notice of Arabs before but will do from now on! They are amazing horses, so beautiful.
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Fany Du Champ said:
They both look stunning! Never really took much notice of Arabs before but will do from now on! They are amazing horses, so beautiful.
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Well, I'm not really an arab person in the sense I wouldn't ever buy one, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate them. Both of the two I have known well have been ferociously intelligent and fantastically athletic. And I think the old fashioned type (like the ginger one) are really lovely to look at too.

Plus of course if it weren't for arab horses I wouldn't have my beloved TBs :) They have contributed so much to so many breeds that I find it amazing anyone would say they don't like them. You can see a bit of arab in practically every modern horse after all.

Probably not in Fany so much though :p
 
jesstickle said:
Well, I'm not really an arab person in the sense I wouldn't ever buy one, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate them. Both of the two I have known well have been ferociously intelligent and fantastically athletic. And I think the old fashioned type (like the ginger one) are really lovely to look at too.

Plus of course if it weren't for arab horses I wouldn't have my beloved TBs :) They have contributed so much to so many breeds that I find it amazing anyone would say they don't like them. You can see a bit of arab in practically every modern horse after all.

Probably not in Fany so much though :p
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Actually if you take a look at Fany you will see the injection of Arab they had a couple of hundred years ago. All a lot bigger of course but look at the ears, nostrils and eyes, she even has a slight dish to her face.

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A few more of the lovely ginge.

Grumpy face as usual but proves they can be quite chunky

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Photos of photos sadly but pingy ginger horse

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And to prove he is pretty when not pulling faces

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Here are my girls

The mare is crabbet x russian lines, The foal is high percentage crabbet with a bit of russian.

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Crazydancer said:
Jesstickle, he is very much my boy's dad's type - any idea of his reg name or his breeding??
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Not a clue I'm afraid. I was merely his doting aunt (read horse sitter) for several years. Pretty much all I know is that he's Crabbet lines and is considered old fashioned. He was just a horse to me, I never thought about him being an arab really. If that makes sense!

ETA: I mean that as a huge compliment to him rather than a slight.
 
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It's lovely to see Arab pics on HHO :D
Here are a few of my little mare, Cassie. CAS Eliteia.
I've always had Arabs -so intelligent and loyal. The perfect horse for me :)

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LET'S SEE MORE ARABS!
 
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Wow lots of lovely arabs liking this thread and now to bore you with a few pics of mine

This is Shida who I sadly lost in 2008 but she did a bit of everything and was Crabbet with a bit of Polish

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Now I have her half sister Ishara who is 100% Crabbet and like Shida I plan to do a bit of everything with her but we've taken it pretty slowly so far as she is a lot sharper than her sister but I love her personality and she is a really fun ride.

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and last but not least Beau who I bought last year because he looks like Shida and is a real sweety. He was a stallion until he was 10 and not had the best of lives so now he is a happy hack with a bit of dressage as he's had a tendon injury so don't want to do too much with him. He's Crabbet/Polish.
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EstherYoung said:
For all their energiser bunny qualities, they do break occasionally - they are horses after all. Tougher than most, though, granted.

Ours all live out 24/7/365.
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I know some must do, its natural, my PB Arab did his suspensory ligament. i'm just saying that of all the full bred Arabs I have known, none have ever had any leg problems.
 
navaho said:
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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:) I know 'Eric', a very striking looking horse, his owners bred one of my previous horses.

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They are pretty but its the legs I dissaprove of.

I've never known an Arab go lame, as I once heard someone else say 'they just don't break'.

:( One of mine did, dramatically, during a race at Huntingdon before I owned her, she was 5 at the time. Wise old biddy though, three months on box rest and she would dig a hole by the door and stand there with her bad leg in it, no idea why, but she obviously felt comfortable that way. I had her until she was 17, she did LDR and we hunted, a lot, and hard, never had a days lameness (or colic, and she had a colic op at 6) until an oversexed oaf of an ISH chased her to exhaustion through a bog crippling and ultimately killing her.
 
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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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:eek: ...and you living deep in arab country too! ;) I lived there long enough and although I liked their looks, and many individuals, nothing on this green earth would have persuaded me to actually own a welsh cob so each to their own.

I can appreciate that if a horse is required to carry weight then I can see that a sturdy, steady, old fashioned cobby type would be far more comfortable, and suitable, in the long run.

It is simply horses for courses, you wouldn't use a sportscar to pull a plough any more than you would choose a tractor to run the Derby.;):)
You could, but they wouldn't always be the best choice.


Incidentally, Dr. K-W uses/used her arabs in harness on her farm and won Marathon races with the same horses, versatile little bunnies are arabs:)
 
The place where I ride here mainly has Arabs x Barbs and they live out all year round (in four feet of snow and serious sub-zeroes in Brandenburg). Good, tough horses. Technically I'm probably too "big" for some of them, but I might as well be seven stone, given how well they go. :p

If you find Arabs too "Araby" then a bit of Barb doesn't go amiss!

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SusannaF said:
The place where I ride here mainly has Arabs x Barbs and they live out all year round (in four feet of snow and serious sub-zeroes in Brandenburg). Good, tough horses. Technically I'm probably too "big" for some of them, but I might as well be seven stone, given how well they go. :p

If you find Arabs too "Araby" then a bit of Barb doesn't go amiss!

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Couldn't agree more! Here is my little lad. Lot's of Barb in him:)
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