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Bedouin Traditions and their Relevance Today At the WAHO Conference 2014 in Doha, Qatar, Cynthia Culbertson spoke about Bedouin traditions in horse breeding. She looked at the earliest literary references of the Arabs and explored the strong beliefs of care and welfare for the horse as illustrated by pre-Islamic poetry. The author further discussed the Bedouin tradition of never hitting horses, but only using words or gestures to train them, and finally brought this in context with today’s training methods in the show ring. (German / English) |
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A Dynasty of World Champions What was already apparent over the last few years, became obvious this year: The WORLD Championships in reality are “The Championships of the Arab Countries”, because the big breeding nations, such as USA and South America, were hardly present. And from Europe, only the Poles can compete on top level. (in English) |
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A Judge’s View Point What goes on in the mind of a judge, who is judging a class of horses by using the comparative system? Late Major Pat Maxwell, who had more than 50 years of judging experience with this system, explains in this article his thoughts while in the ring. (German / English) |
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Arabian Performance Lines Within the Arabian breed, you find bloodlines or „types“, which are specialized for different tasks. But it is not always so easy to know where to look for the best performance lines. (German / English) |
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Enough is enough What looked at first to be „just an accumulation of doping cases “, has developed into the biggest scandal in endurance riding, including mid-ride horse-swaps, bogus races for qualification, increasing number of doping cases and numerous dead horses on the track. If endurance shall survive, all endurance riders have to stand up against these practices, to save their sport. (German / English) |
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Form and Function Do you know all the bones in a horse? Can you use all the technical terms correctly? If not, we give you the chance to look them up here. Apart form that, the Belgian judge and breeder of Endurance horses, Nelly Philippot has judged the conformation of several horses, especially with a view to their performance ability. We will start with two horses of French racing bloodlines. (German / English) |
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