Re: Re: shagyas 101 - purebreds?

["Celia Krall" <celiak@pcrs.net>]

Huh???

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> From: Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
> To: AERC <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Subject: RC:  Re: shagyas 101 - purebreds?
> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:25 AM
> 
> Hi Toni!  I guess I am  the only one who has a problem with the notion
> of Shagya as purebred Arabian - maybe I'm just an overly picky person?
> It just isn't logical for me that Shagya people claim that Shagyas are
> purebred Arabians at the same time they claim them to be purebred
> Shagyas with acknowledged warmblood & TB blood?
> 
> The Arabian Horse Registry of America (AHRA) makes the rules in the US
> about what a purebred Arabian is.  IAHA is the registry for part-bred
> Arabians - horses that cannot be registered as purebred Arabians but
> have at least one registered (AHRA) Arabian parent.  So actually, unless
> an individual Shagya has at least one registered purebred Arabian
> parent, it can't even be registered with IAHA.  AHRA says, "The rules
> for registrations, simply put, require a horse to be of pure Arabian
> blood as verified by its pedigree. The sire and dam must be registered
> with the Registry (or in the case of an imported horse, with a foreign
> registry approved by the Registry). No horse can ever be "bred up" to
> purebred status; only offspring of registered purebred Arabians are
> eligible for registration with the Registry."  I think the last part -
> no horse can ever be bred up to purebred status - says it all -
> .9999999% is not the same as 100%, ever. To acknowledge the warmblood &
> TB ancestry of the Shagya is to acknowledge that the breed is not the
> same as 100% Arabian, right?  (I'm sure you're aware the AHRA withdrew
> from WAHO because WAHO has less stringent rules about what it means to
> be a purebred Arabian.)
> 
> If I was a Shagya owner, I wouldn't want to claim my breed was really
> another breed.  So I guess it boils down to why some Shagya people do
> just that.  I mean, what's the point?  Lif
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