The beginnings of raising purebred Arabs in Chile.

I am posting this on behalf of Miguel, who is quite knowledgeable of the history of the Arabian horse breed in Chile, where he tells me that he believes the Chilean registry is the oldest of all those in South America. The Chilean registry includes Peru, and is said to have begun in in 1872, the details of which you will find below.

It is known that in the year 1865, the then famous Sebastian Equestrian Circus Company sold a beautiful Arab colt to a well-known Chilean farmer of those years. Although there are no written records of this fact, all the descriptions that account for that animal leaves no doubt about the purity of blood of that Arab called El Blanco. But given the prolixity with which records have always been taken in Chile, it did not remain as the first purebred Arabian in Chile because he did not have the certificates to identify it as such.

Years later, in 1872, the Baron Von Huegel by express order of Nathan Miers Cox acquired the colt Aslan (1868) and the mares Hazam and Randy directly from the reputable stud farm of the King of Würtemberg in Weil, Germany. This fact marks the genuine and documented starting point of the history of the breeding history of the Arab in Chile. At the same time the first Chilean Arabian stud farm begins with the name of Mansel. The importance of Aslan is not only circumscribed to the breeding of Pure Arabs in Chile, proof of this is that he appears in the pedigree of one of the most famous Thoroughbred horses in the history of Chile, which is the unforgettable gray Old Boy, who descends by maternal line from this gray Arabian.

These horses were registered in the Stud Book of Chile, taken by the Sporting Club of Valparaíso, and then passed to the Stud Book of Chile (Volume I, 1866-1912, published in Santiago in 1914 Santiago and Valparaíso Horse Club). In 1935 the registration of Chilean Arabs passed into the hands of the National Society of Agriculture, SNA. And at the end of the eighties this record was in the hands of SOFO, who is officially the registry of Chile in the World Arabian Horse Organization, WAHO.

Other imports made after the group of Mr. Cox, have consisted of colts or mares like Kartal, Turkish, and Orpha by the Guillaume circus, brought according to this businessman from the stables of the Viceroy of Egypt.

Later Mr. Cox imported the colt Gomuza (1884) from England in the year of 1889.

From the reputed Crabbet Park came the colt Dahman imported in 1893 by Salvador Vergara A., and that later passed into the hands of Mr. Julio Zegers.

Below is a photo of Aslan.