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Persik, born on 1 April 1969 and died on 24 August 2001, was a gray-coated Arabian horse who was the leading sire in the equestrian discipline of endurance from 1975 until his death in 2001. His eclectic origins include Polish and Russian bloodlines, as well as French and English, in particular the famous Skowronek .
The Arabian or Arab horse (Arabic: الحصان العربي [alħisˤaːn alʕarabijj], DMG al-ḥiṣān al-ʿarabī) is a breed of horse with historic roots on the Arabian Peninsula. With a distinctive head shape and high tail carriage, the Arabian is one of the most easily recognizable horse breeds in the world.
Ansata Ibn Halima (foaled 1958 in Egypt, died 1980) was a famous Arabian horse of Egyptian bloodlines who was imported from Egypt to the United States in 1959. A gray stallion, he was originally bred by the Egyptian Agricultural Organization (EAO), and imported by Donald and Judith Forbis of the Ansata Arabian Stud. He was a U.S. Top Ten ...
Saklawi horses influenced several European horse breeds selected in Central Europe in the early 19th century. One stallion in the lineage is known to have been the sixth founder stallion of the Lipizzan breed at the Spanish Riding School. This gray Arabian horse, named "Siglavy", was born in 1810 and arrived in Lipica in 1814 [20] or 1816. [21]
Wellesley Arabian was the last Arabian horse, or supposed to be, to enter racehorse breeding in England. [21] Indeed, no other Arabian horse imported since the late 18th century had influenced the Thoroughbred breed. [22] Wellesley Arabian is therefore an exception to the rule that the Thoroughbred breed has not been influenced by foreign ...
"Oriental" horse, was a tall, slim, refined and agile animal arising in western Asia, adapted to hot, dry climates, and thought to be the progenitor of the modern oriental breeds. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Original classification of ancient horse phenotypes was originally based on body types and conformation, prior to the availability of DNA for research ...
Alcock's Arabian (foaled about 1700, died about 1733), also known as Pelham Grey Arabian and less certainly as Bloody Buttocks and Ancaster Turk, among other names, is the ancestor of all grey-coloured Thoroughbred horses, [1] as well as grey sport and riding horses descended from Thoroughbred lines.
A sport horse breeding operation was set up in Sidi Beroussii in 1985, to obtain the Moroccan Sport Horse. [11] The country has five national stud farms, located in Marrakesh, Meknes, Bouznika, Oujda and El Jadida, managed by SOREC. [17] The Bouznika stud is home to the Royal Family's Arabian horses. [18]