Racing nomenclature
Somebody has been bugging me to help set up Arabian racing in Southern Africa. I can’t help but wonder what the members of this group think. If “per definition” (i.e. Skowronek, etc.) WAHO Arabians are allowed, is it really Arabian racing?
This kind of a move would be an opportunity for you to seize the teaching moment. Unfortunately to make a prohibition on letting part bred arabs into racing you would probably have to have a copy of the Czarist Russian arabian studbooks with their stated criteria for including Asil horses only in the main studbook.
In addition you might also want to require that anyone wanting to race their horses also allow the racing authorities to take genetic samples and test them to make sure they don’t have Thoroughbred- Turcoman, and or Barb blood.
By the way a study completed this past September of Barbs from Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria found that 24% of the studs tests had the same Y chromosome as Nazeer. So all of the yo yo’s who insist that there is no arabian blood in the Barb horses are flat out wrong.
best
Bruce Peek
On peut aussi se poser la question dans l autre sens que les descendants de Nazeer avait du sang barbe chromosome Y
Donc c est normal de retrouvé c est même chromosomes dans une parti des barbes algérien marocain
C est toujours une question de de vue et pas de yo yo
Bonne journée
All I can think is that Arabian racing has been tried and has failed before here for lack of interest – and that Abba went through hell in bush racing. Let’s not make Arabians racehorses in southern Africa. I don’t want any additional incentives for them to be seen as suitable for illegal racing, like Abba was – and she was one of the lucky ones. She lived.