At the end of the 2019 tournament year, the purebred Arabian stallion Mosri Al Dahab (Dahab / Mosila) *2004 passed his second stallion performance test. Already in 2011 he completed the performance test in endurance riding under his then rider Katharina Dorn. In 2016 he participated in the stallion licensing and left the course in …
January 2020 archive
Jan 31 2020
Al Ashar – The Jack of all Trades
Our readers voted – Al Ashar is Arabian of the Year 2019 He really is a great guy, Al Ashar, regardless of whether in jumping, in dressage, in eventing, in breeding, as a reliable teacher, or simply a guy “to fall in love with”. He is an Arabian as in the book. After all, aren’t …
Jan 30 2020
Search for Traces on a Genetic Level
In recent years, the horse genome has been examined with new genetic analysis methods. The result was some new knowledge about the family tree of our horses, their domestication, the “grand sires” and “grand dams” of all domestic horses, the origin of the breeds and much more. The Eurasian Steppes, the area of domestication of …
Jan 30 2020
NK Hafid Jamil 1996 – 2020
NK Hafid Jamil (Ibn Nejdy / Helala) *1996 photo: Arlette Studer Breeders of Straight Egyptians mourn the stallion NK Hafid Jamil, who died at the age of 24. Born in 1996 in the stud of Dr. Hans-Joachim Nagel, he represented for many the ideal of the “Egyptian”, in particular he embodied the “Nagel look” to …
Jan 29 2020
Growing-up to be a Race Horse
In Russia, purebred Arabians are racing already as two-year-olds. This is seen very critical in Western Europe, although hardly anyone really knows much about it. We talked to Olga Birukova, breeding manager at Tersk Stud, about rearing, training and racing Arabian horses in Russia. Historical Background It was not before the end of the 19th …
Jan 27 2020
Mission accomplished
Adnan Azzam ist vor wenigen Tagen in Moskau angekommen. Der Reiter aus Syrien startete im April 2019 in Damaskus, und hat nun nach ca. 6000 km sein Ziel erreicht. Adnan Azzam und Nayazek in Rostov am Don vor dem Denkmal für Ataman Platov Adnan Azzam ist ein franco-syrischer Autor, der bereits von 1982 bis 1986 …
Jan 26 2020
The last Bedouin Horses of Egypt
Since I am sincerely interested in the cultural and biological origin of the Arabian horse, I must not miss the opportunity to visit the Tahawi Bedouins in Egypt when the opportunity arose. And so I went with Yasser Ghanim Al-Tahawi to Al-Sharqiyah, a province in the East of Egypt, to meet his family, who lives …
Jan 25 2020
Crystal Challenge in der Schweiz
Eine neue Initiative will die “Araberreiterei” in der Schweiz unterstützen. Unter dem Namen “Crystal Challenge” gibt es dieses Jahr eine Reihe von Turnierklassen, die speziell dem arabischen Pferd vorbehalten sind. Teilnahmeberechtigt sind Pferde der Rassen Arabisches Vollblut, Shagya-, Anglo-, Partbred-Araber und Araber, die in einem anerkannten Stutbuch eingetragen sind. Die Termine wurden auf den 25. …
Jan 23 2020
New method for pain sensitivity measurement in endurance horses
Dr Morgane Schambourg, DMV, MSc, Dipl. ACVS / ECVS, has carried out studies on the sensitivity to pain in the legs of endurance horses and developed a method of how this can be measured.The nociceptors (pain receptors) are responsible for the perception of pain. These are essentially free nerve endings of sensitive neurons in the …
Jan 21 2020
The most valuable Horse Race in the World
Das Obaiya Arabian Classic-Rennen für Vollbutaraber findet am Samstag, den 29. Februar 2020 auf der King-Abdulaziz-Rennbahn in Riad im Rahmen des neu eingerichteten Renntags “The Saudi Cup” statt. Mit insgesamt 1,9 Mio Dollar hat das Obaiya Arabian Classic das höchste Preisgeld aller Rennen für arabische Pferde weltweit. Das Rennen ist für 4yo + Vollblutaraber ausgeschrieben …