Re: Amblin/Racking/what ever

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

It seems we have now entered a very speculative area. Not a whole lot of
hard history. The age of the breed is not the question. It is did the Barb
(or any of its possible mixed bag of ancesters) branch off from the Arab or
did it come entirely from another branch(es). Incidently, if the Arab is the
oldest breed then all horses derived from the Arab and all horses are
Arabs - having nothing but Arabian ancesters. My guess is the Arabian
Registry is not going to buy into that. Otherwise, there has to be a
breed(s) equally as old (possible extinct in pure form - which would imply
non Arabs are offspring of more than one of this extinct breeds).

There is a whole lot more recorded history of the Arabian Peninsula than
there is of say central Africa or even Germany. But that does not mean there
haven't been people living there. Or indicate which were there first.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: <GoldenCMK@aol.com>
>
> <<  I will find that in fact the barb predates the Arabian and is a
>  separte distinct breed of horse. The barb then introduced to the Spanish
by
> the
>  Moors was part of the foundation of the spanish horses. >>
>
> The Arabian has been documented as far back as 3000 BC in the Arabian
> peninsula but Arab legend puts them as far back 961 BC. The Arabian has
been
> one of the most documented horses and the only one to have been bred pure
for
> all these centuries.  I have never read that the Barb predates the
Arabian.
> My understanding is the the Moors we of Arab and Berber decent and they
> developed Barbs on Northern Africa from the Arabian and the heavy course
> horse of the Berber people.
>
> Maria
>