Arab question

[gaited horse]

How do you tell the differnece between the Egyptian arabians, Spanish arabians and Polish arabians?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Good question! I've wondered the same thing!

 

[gaited horse]

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I got a nice Arab mare from a horse auction two years ago and this year I really started looking at her and wondering.

 

[Glenmar]

I would go with pedigree.

 

[gaited horse]

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She didn't come with one sadly. If she was pedigreed I would breed her.

 

[arabianequine]

I heard that egyptian arabs were the craziest of the arabs.

My arab is polish and russian. They are wide thick bodied and calm way down I heard around 5-6. Still not very tall or heavy though. Here are some most recent pics of her from a couple weeks ago.

 

[chickenzoo]

Egyptians are very fine boned and have a very deep dish. Polish tend to be heavier built and slightly less severe a dish. Spanish, I've not dealt with.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Physical appearance.

SOME strains of Egyptians tend to be finer-boned and dishier
SOME strains of Egyptians are bigger, raw-boned but still dishy
Polish tend to be tall, athletic, bigger boned and less typy
Russians are like Polish only usually leaner
Spanish tend to be smaller, a little more compact
Crabbet look a but like Egyptian, a bit like Polish. Typically with shorter necks and rounder hindquarters
CMK look a lot like Crabbet but more variation

Current domestic strains are going 1 of 3 ways.

Halter horses are beginning to look like deer: skinny, big eyes, kinda useless for riding

Show horses are tending to look like Saddlebreds

Sport horses are tending to look like Warmbloods with nice heads

Only distance/endurance horses seem to realy be retaining Arabian build and type

 

[chickenzoo]

I've noticed that too, only in endurance does it seem you find more of the "typical" Arabs that one usually thinks of. These halter horses , especially Egyptians, IMO look like you could blow them over with a feather..... hardly look like a horse for hardy desert riding or riding at all.

 

[heathersboers]

I had a registered Arab mare with old lines....HeR sire was a son of Bey shah..she looked like a qh in body but had long lean legs And a dish face to die for...the straight Egyptian stallion we had looked like a mustang. He had no.dish but a very lean And small frame.he was a nut. I have seen some of the barrel racers that looked like qh. ..my mare was a full sister to the 2010 champion. He was built exactly like a qh...but it could be all the muscling from running barrels. They do seem to have hot tempers as compared to other breeds. But buy are they gorgeous!!!