<< Your note on the 'racing' arab was interesting. Up here, there's a stable
that is promoting 'polish' race horses (NO Bask, please) and have
introduced French arabs into their mix. Well I saw a pic of a top French
racing arab stallion...causing lots of controversy. The horse looks like a
quarter horse! Big, flattish butt, stocky, not a lot of daylight under him.
>>
Dear Monika, the French have been breeding Arabs for short distance speed for
a long time--and it sure shows!!! As you noticed, most French Arabian
racehorses don't look very "arab!" I never saw a French bred racing arab I
liked--they might be fast, for 6 furlongs, but they are not, in my mind,
"arabs" anymore--they've been selectively bred into something else.
Trish & "pretty David"