These posts weere initially published on the AKHorsemen Yahoo discussion group, over several days in August 2001. There is no evidence whatsoever that Bedouins ever bred according to strain theory. This is a myth. They most certainly never did it intentionally during the 20th century and the Abbas Pasha Manuscript is here at last to tell us it did not happen in the 19th century. There are definitely many different types [of Arabian horses], distinctive and special. The greatest contribution of North American breeders of Arabians to the breed (a contribution at least equal that of the Bedouins in preserving the purity of the blood from immemorial times) is that they have emphasized and developed these types. However it is my opinion that the mistake of these breeders was to confuse strains and types. They are not to be associated. Strains are just equivalents of family names for humans. Humans transmitfamily names from father to son, in horses family names (strains) aretransmitted from mother to daughter, simply because Bedouins thought it was more convenient, for several reasons (I’ll expand on this later). You have tall humans and short humans; and you have humans from the Smith family and other from…