Re: purebred shagyas

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

Sorry, Toni - I guess I misunderstood you to be saying that Shagyas are
a type of Arabian (such as Crabbet, CMK or other "types" of Arabians).
I do know I have read articles about Shagyas that argue that very
thing.  But I see that is not what you meant.

On the other hand, I think my misunderstanding probably comes from our
not using terminology the same way (and doesn't that happen an awful
lot!).  You wrote "they are obviously an Arabian breed which...." - see,
I wouldn't say they were an Arabian breed at all, no matter what the
qualifier is.  They are perhaps part-Arab, but not a subset of the
Arabian *breed* - unless you are using the term "Arabian breed" to mean
any and all horses with connections to the Arabian desert.  The problem
with that usage is that the AHRA & IAHA don't use the term that way & I
(and most people, I think) generally accept that definition as the one
to use, i.e., there is an Arabian breed, the subsets of which are
purebred Arabians only.  Non purebreds cannot be part of a subset of
purebreds.

Anyway, I now understand what you're saying.  Thanks for the info.  Lif

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