A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
Jens Sannek recently shared this video screenshot of the Iranian stallion Jallad (Arras x Atlassi) a Wadnan Khursan born 1976, bred by the Equestrian Federation of Iran, exported to Austria to Gustl Eutermoser in 1979 and later to Spain.
In Arabian horses, strains are traditionally transmitted by the dam. This is how Bedouins did it for about half a millennium, for reasons I discussed elsewhere. Strains, and their transmissions are intimately connected to the concepts of asil/atiq (roughly, authentic) in an Arabian horse. In other words, the daughter of an asil/atiq Hamdaniyah Simriyah and … Read more