Breed for a good strong withers, sloping shoulders, a hind end that can collect under their body. Handsome is as handsome does. Pretty is nice endurance is basic. Easy riding gaits, brains and temperament are more important than pretty. My Fancy girl lived to 35, and could jump 4 ft., which was as high as I wanted to go.❤

My girlfriend raised Arabians and a couple of miles from her house was Midwest Stables, Maple Grove MN, who had one of the most beautiful stunning Arabs I've ever seen. His name was Padron.

We should remember how they are supposed to be

So cool! Horses from before I was born. But Raffles was in my first horse’s pedigree.

You've put so much time and effort into this and other *Raffles related videos! Thank you so very much!

Thank you so much for sharing these with us!

There could only be one *Raffles. I love this brief video of him; thank you for sharing it!

Wonderful footage!

I don't think the Arabian Horse News set my Aunt gave me went back this far, but I had at least from 1963? So all the Wentworth heritage were my obsession. I believe Raffles and Raseyn were the two direct sons in America, but such a long list I could still recite of the grandsons. Bazy Tankersley sent Indraff get across the country. Funny memory fail: equally famous Scottsdale ranch made sure almost everything was related to Ferseyn (Raseyn). I shook hands with Frank McCoy, who had the handsome "Real McCoy," I believe a Ferseyn son. On the same college-time road trip I visited Silver Vanity in his older years in San Fernando (Not a Skowronek, if I remember, but straight from Wentworth Stud.)

This was awesome, I actually work at Chaunceys during this time . One day I was working and the Vice President of the United States came driving up with his hole Entourage just to go riding with the Chaunceys. Good memories.

These horses bring tears to my eyes. (in a good way)💗

Hope Saudia Arabia and Egypt will retain the original charm and character of the desert horse!

What a lovely lovely head he had, none of that horrific caricature of a horse you find in the showing world today. His head could very easily pass for a modern warmblood, or TB pretty as can be. I remember in the early days of the Dutch warmblood one of the inspectors said to me the aim was to make the Dutch warmblood look as pretty as a Welsh pony. This horse exemplifies this absolutely, they could've used him if they haf frozen semen then. The eye the eye, gorgeous. Sad to see they were stacking horses in this grotesque manner aldready back then. Seems everything must ultimately be an American saddle bred. I believe this poor horse was forced into being gaited which left him with chronic arthritis.

Hi do you have any videos of Carmargue? 😊

this is how they Should look!! I could barely believe what I was seeing many years back when a breeder of Arabians went for that insanely exaggerated head. these are the Best!

What a wonderful show that was! I love my Arabian mare. ❤

I absolutely love seeing Ragala's children and descendants! I miss our Gala Fay (Mahroun x Bous Du Rose), he was special! I also saw many Ragala descendants at Dainton's in Wyoming.

I was a lady jockey in the state of Washington eight times leading jockey.

Bill Moore was my Dad's name he passed away.💜

For the love of the horse beautiful couple ❤❤

I love to see them in their own environment, the desert.

It reminds me of my grandfather and my country 😭

THANK YOU! This is an absolute treasure. Almost every horse in our horses's main pedigree is on here--some I have never hoped to see.

That's a lot of horses! The Russian bred mares toward the end of the video...be still my beating heart!❤

Curious how it appears today's horse breeders seem to be breeding the Arabian to make it resemble early paintings and drawings of the breed. I hope someone points out to them that artists' renderings are NOT always naturalistic, but such renderings are ALWAYS stylistic. Bizarre to think that this would happen: That some artist's "interpretation" of the animal he was looking at would become a reality in flesh two hundred years later! I am certainly glad the same has not happened in the breeding of domestic house cats, because the renderings of them two hundred plus years ago was mostly crude and incompetent, and today's cats would be an ugly bunch if breeders followed the lead of those early artists' renderings of cats! Overall I found this a disturbing film, showing how colonialism's pressure causing the fall of the Ottoman Empire would result in the near loss of one of the region's cultural treasures -- the exquisite desert icon of the "Arabian" horse.

I’m 99% sure I was there when I was 10-11 years old. My dad took me up there a couple times to look at the horses. My dad’s boss at the time was Raul Baxter, his daughter, Teal is my age. Raul owned several at that time. I remember one mare in particular- Lea Gai Sedona.

Was this video by chance taken at a farm near Batavia Ohio?

My late FIL and his prize stallion. Azada and Rocky were a class act! ❤

Looks like a fun party with important guest right ✅ Have fun everybody and they did l do say ! Looks like fun for everyone everyone !!!!everyone

I'm so thankful to see this video at last! *Raffles, as Jimmie Dean said, " ... can best be described as an experience without parallel." Like commenter Mrs.C5471 says: "I don’t know how Thelma could let him go….. I couldn’t have done it." I've dreamed about how it must have felt for Thelma to spent all those hours walking with and riding her beautiful little *Raffles on that Forest Service land, having him all to herself, and how much he must have loved and trusted her!

Boy you just cannot beat that topline! He was a magnificent animal.

Oh boy does THIS bring back memories! Many were the hours I spent with Ben and Ed. I was fortunate enough to be able to ride Ben on numerous occasions, even at the Arabian Horse Show that used to be held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. And I had two babies by Ben, one purebred and one Half-Arabian/Saddlebred/Morgan cross. Wonderful animals! He was the most magnificent Arab I had ever seen and still is to this day.

In Poland we have the best Arabian horses in the world 🙂

I just learned about the incredible story behind this horse. Thanks for posting this short video. He was truly a heroic animal.

Thanks! This was wonderful to watch,never seen this before.

Horses need to prove themselves physically. Not based on looks. Form follows function. This is glorified beauty pagents.

love that Mustang mix !

The Arabian made Irish horse racing/breeding what it is today

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They are so beautiful. That’s how Arabians should look. Much better than the deformed skeletal headed freaks much of the world is breeding as Arabians these days.

My families first Arabian came from Lodwick Arabians in the 1960's. Best mare ever!

I remember riding past friendship farms as a little girl praying to see the horses in the field, I'm sad it's no more 😢

Thank u for sharing this, pretty special

No. If I run across some I will post them.

Audio sucks

I wouldnt say its ancient but it is hard to find

Hi lonny. Do you have vídeo by El Hilal - An Malik - Menes or more Tom Chauncey Arabian Thank you

They were the hardiest and most beautiful horses in the world! Some still are! Too bad most show breeders don't follow the history and keep them as they should be! The horse and all horses need to be; riding horses with the heart, hooves and legs of steel and the strength and endurance to survive for days in harsh situations! The true Arabian is still a stronger long lasting riding horse after all these years against other breeds! IMO That being said - At 37: 23- 37: 00 This man states that American Arabians are in his opinion a very refined halter show horse with long swooning necks and beautiful heads. American stallions look very feminine compared to the stallions in Europe that are bred for correctness of carriage while the middle east is going for both types.

hay mi Patrick cuanto te echamos de menos buen actor buena persona y sobre todo buen bailarin amante de los caballos siempre vas a estar con Nosotros en nuestros ❤❤❤❤ y junto con Lisa una pareja muy bonita de echo tengo la pelicula del guerrero del amanecer y no me canso de verla y k bien trabajaron los dos siempre contigo Patrick❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤