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> The *Vast Majority* of 'purebred' Arabian horses registered by AHA have
> documented other blood and unknowns.
The difference here is that when they came into the registry (with a
couple of obscure exceptions that have not bred on to any great degree)
the pedigrees were truly unknown and were thought to be purebred.  The
documentation of Skowronek's pedigree is a fairly recent phenomenon.  The
fact that those pedigrees are now known is still no reason to add more.

Additionally, there is still controversy over some of the horses you
mention with regard to Skowronek, although undoubtedly there is something
in the woodpile there.

So what is the point of introducing several MORE non-purebred ancestors,
many of which are up far closer than the distant ones in Skowronek's
pedigree?

> Only a very low percent (10%????)  of the horses registered can really
> trace in all lines to Desert Source, these are your BLUE STAR, Blue
> List, Al Khamsa, Davenport and Straight Egyptians, - (apologies, I know
> I've missed some of the rarer groups.)
It is interesting that as long as she lived and as much as she loved
Skowronek, Lady Wentworth to her dying day maintained a non-Skowronek
breeding group of straight Blunt horses.

> This DOES NOT change the fact that they are wonderful horses who perform
> and reproduce according to type.  As far as I know, Arabians are the
> only breed with a 'religious' basis.  Every other breed known has a mix
> of quality foundation horses who were linebred to produce performance
> and type, which is how most breeders outside the Nejd managed their
> Arabian breeding programs.  -based on type and performance rather than
> only blood once they left the desert. (doesn't that sound familiar?)
This is true.  It does not change the fact that it is insulting to add
MORE known non-purebreds with far closer-up sources of non-purebred
breeding--just to appease a few financial high rollers.

> But however wonderful those horses are, it doesn't change the fact the
> most of them are only 99.9% percent 'purebred' and do not in all lines
> trace to the Kuhaylat of Ishmael. - which, honestly, means nothing to
> most people, and admittedly, means entirely too much to others.
Well, actually the percentage goes out more decimal places.... <g>  And
you are right that there is over-emphasis in both directions.  That is
still no excuse to include the horses under discussion, IMO.

Heidi



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