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Arab Horse Society of Zimbabwe Slovakia: Narodny Zrebcin Topolcianky Slovenia: Slovenian Arabian Stud Book Authority Spain: Asociación Española de Criadores de Caballos Árabes (A.E.C.C.A) South Africa: The Arab Horse Society of South Africa Syria: Arabian Horse Office, Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform (MAAR) Czech Republic
The first horses arrived in South Africa in 1653, when four horses were introduced to the Cape area by the Dutch East India Trading Company. The exact breed of these horses is unknown, but they may have been Arabian, Persian or similar to the Java Pony. They were upgraded later with Arabian and Persian blood. [2]
The Crabbet Arabian Stud, also known as the Crabbet Park Stud, was an English horse breeding farm that ran from 1878 to 1972. Its founder owners, husband and wife team Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt , decided while travelling in the Middle East to import some of the best Arabian horses to England and breed them there.
Exhibitor from Syria holding an Arabian horse at the Hamidie Society exhibition, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. In 1908, the Arabian Horse Registry of America was established, recording 71 animals, [166] and by 1994, the number had reached half a million. Today there are more Arabians registered in North America than in the rest of the ...
International trade before and after World War II meant that the Hanstead horses were appreciated in countries such as the United States, [7] South Africa, [8] Australia, the Netherlands, and Canada. [9] "In the post-war years Hanstead was a mature stud, with a band of 10 to 15 mares and a battery of homebred stallions.
The Nooitgedachter is a strong and hardy riding horse, well adapted to the environmental conditions of South Africa, and suitable for use as a working horse in the management of farm livestock. In modern times, Nooitgedachters are used for English riding disciplines including dressage, show jumping, equitation, showing, distance riding, and ...
Present in six African countries, the Arab-Barb is one of the most widely distributed horse breeds on the continent, along with the Barb (and following the Arab and Thoroughbred). According to a conference given at the El Jadida International Horse Show in October 2010, the estimated total number of Arab-Barb horses throughout the Maghreb ...
From 1905 until about 1920 the horses could be registered with the horse-breeders' association of Transvaal. [6] A breeders' association, the Kaapse Boerperd Breeders' Society of South Africa, was formed in 1948. [7] A separate association, the Boerperd Society of South Africa, formed in 1973.