Re: Arabian history

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

Taking this back to where this thread started. Then for the most part the
Arab was not gaited. Or if gait was common in Arabs of some years ago, it is
not common today and the horse has been altered. You can't have it both
ways.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: <GoldenCMK@aol.com>

> The following is a quote from John L. Hervey who was considered one of the
> greatest historians of light horses in the U.S.
>
> "The orgin of the Arab (as we now call him) is the world's greatest
> zoological mystery. When we first encounter him he is already exactly the
> same fixed and eternal type of animal that he is today, with the sole
> exception that he is not quite so large. Otherwise he has remained through
> all the centuries, ages and cycles, to all the intents and purposes
unchanged"
>
> Maria
>