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I remember articles in "Arabian Horse World" about Turkish and Iranian 
arabians.  They sounded like they would be excellent bloodlines to have 
access to.  They weren't pretty horses so I doubt any will get imported 
any time soon.
Laney

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > If I recall my history correctly, the Russians didn't just "import"
> > their Polish Arabs, they stole them, taking them as spoils of war in
> > WW2. Gen. Patton rescued some of the Polish horses from the Germans
> > (including Witez II) and the Russians took the rest of them.
>
>
> Some of their stock of that era, yes.  But even earlier than that, the
> Russians DID have a breeding program, and actually, Skowronek was born on
> Russian soil, not Polish, if you want to get right down to it.  Russia,
> like Poland, also imported horses from Crabbet in the pre-WWII days.
>
> It is what the Russians have done post-WWII that is of concern to me--like
> Poland, they have continued to breed a few classical sorts of Arabians,
> but like Poland, they have also gotten into their own version of this
> modern "craze" and in fact have imported a lot of modern Polish horses
> that are all too similar to some of the modern Polish horses coming here. 
> One can indeed find some very nice Russian horses.  But in many cases both
> in pedigree and type it is difficult to distinguish some of them from the
> modern Polish horses.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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