Breeding. The knowledge from the ancient beduins

I have been asking myself many years now what is really happening with the Arabian Horse breeding.


All the thousand-of-years old insights that were guiding principles for the old Beduins are today seen as just picturesque oldfashion knowledge.

Even the modern Arab Sheiks have forgotten all those old principles. Exeptions worth to mention are Egypt and Jordan as they have had a continuing breeding without any influence from Europe or later USA and Australia.


Look at all the advertising for all kinds of directions within the breed - Show, Racing, Endurance.... You name it. It is the same "modern" thinking all over the world. Use that or that stallion and all your wishes come true!


Those old Beduins knew what they talked about. They revered their mares so highly so they based their breeding programs upon the Mare families. The breed is many thousands of year - can bee as old as 6.000 years. To continue a quality breed over such a long period there must have been on a base of very deep and experienced knowledge, right?


Correctness was a very important ingredience when choosing a stallion to your valuable mare.

...more to come....