A Gift From The Desert

[@peterlovett5841]

Every breeder should listen very carefully to the comments by the Director of the King Abdullah Arabian horse stud and take heed. The concentration on breeding horses for the halter classes is leading to a breed that will lose its whole reason for being - a riding horse with mammoth endurance. The Arab horse was for riding and that is on what it should be judged not how pretty it looks on the end of a halter.

[@valerieadams1415]

They didn't "evolve". They were carefully bred for many characteristics... I heard the Arabs treated their Horses better than their Wives...

[@RosebudBB]

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.

[@emte5676]

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.

[@thelionheartzr1341]

Arabian horses is our pride of golden age of Islam.

[@GloryDaze73]

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

[@fieldandstream9362]

They're origin such a mystery....one less vertebrae in the back.

[@nepheshr290]

Wow this was fantastic!, who produced this movie? I loved when they were talking about the desert bred Arabians vs the show bred because in America I think we're losing some of the greatness and utilitarianism of the Arabian horse.

[@GeorgiaAlbert]

The great war horses ridden into battle were the Mares.

[@magdalenecanyon7969]

Wonderful historical account of the stunning Arabian. Thank you, thank you, thank you❣️🐴✨

[@fieldandstream9362]

Through the Sands of Time

[@CatherineRhoadsNC144]

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[@abbykoop5363]

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

[@AngelCatBaby]

Thank you for sharing this and reminding me of what I’ve known as a child. I fell in love with the Arabian horse breed, and I still draw and paint them, but looks aren’t everything, what really matters is the endurance and heart which makes the Arabian so much sought after, including its intelligence, and helping other breeds excel with their offspring being stronger than before.

[@PiaStJohn]

What a great selection of images!

[@mrs.c5471]

No self respecting Bedouin would shoe their horse.

[@martinjean.pierre9541]

The Arabian horse is a complete horse he can do anything beauty jumping gallop in the desert and in addition to that he is magnificent my adored horse

[@alexandrabader156]

a wonderful and very interesting video! thank you for that!!!

[@faibishclassical]

Very good thanks.

[@ricardoaugusto9925]

great video thank you. a lot of precious info about the history of the breed.