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All of our Arabian horses are Asil
Club qualified, Straight Egyptian (SE), Al Khamsa (AK) and Sheykh Obeyd (SO)
Arabians. It is important that you know what you are getting, so for those who
could use a little clarification, the definitions of the various designations
are given. You can scroll on down or click to see
photos and descriptions.
SHEYKH OBEYD definition from the
Arabian Horse Association web site: The root stock of Sheykh Obeyd breeding is
composed of 66 Arabian ancestors who were bred by, acquired by, or introduced
into the gene pool by these 7 original breeders: Abbas Pasha, Ali Pasha Sherif,
Ahmed Bey Sennari, Prince Ahmed Pasha Kemal, Khedive Abbas Hilme II, the Blunts
and of the RAS (under the auspices of Dr. Branch). Sheykh Obeyd Arabians descend
in all lines from any combination of those 66 original ancestors. In addition to
being Al Khamsa, all Sheykh Obeyd Arabians are Asil Club qualified, as well as
Pyramid Society qualified (with the exception of the descendants of Kars).
Sheykh Obeyd Arabians are now
dangerously close to being lost. The current breeding population has fallen
below 1,000 individuals, qualifying this as an endangered group according to the
criteria established by The American Livestock Breeders Conservancy. However,
the significance of this gene pool does not lie solely in its rare status,
but in the unique beauty and authentic character that these horses have
exhibited throughout history. They are the only living animals who descend
entirely from those Arabians who captured the hearts of the 7 foundation
breeders of Egypt over a century ago. When they are gone, they are gone
forever.
What it clearly implies is that
they provide an extraordinary concentrated genetic resource for the most prized
Arabian blood that has ever existed.
The ASIL
ARABIAN is
a horse whose pedigree is exclusively based on Bedouin breeding of the Arabian
peninsula, without any crossbreeding with non-Arabian horses at any time. The
word “asil” (Arabic, pronounced: asseel) means pure, true, noble and
genuine. The ASIL ARABIAN horse should have the riding qualities and the
characteristics of type which distinguish the desert Arabian.
AL KHAMSA ARABIANS
are defined as those horses
in North America that can reasonable be assumed to descend entirely from asil
Bedouin Arabian horses bred by the horse-breeding Bedouin tribes of the deserts
of the Arabian peninsula, without admixture from sources unacceptable to Al
Khamsa.
STRAIGHT EGYPTIAN
defined by the Pyramid Society: To qualify as a Straight Egyptian, as defined by
The Pyramid Society, a horse must (1) be registered or eligible by pedigree for
registration by the Arabian Horse Registry of America AND (2) trace in every
line of its pedigree to horse born in Arabia Deserta; AND (3) trace in every
line of its pedigree to a horse which falls within one or more of the following
categories: (a) owned or bred by Abbas Pasha I or Ali Pasha Sherif: (b)
used to create and maintain the Royal Agricultural Society (RAS)/Egyptian
Agricultural Organization (EAO) breeding programs, with the exclusion of
Registan and Sharkasi and their lineal descendants (c) a horse which was a
lineal ancestor of a horse described in (a) or (b) above; and (d) other than
those excluded above, a horse conceived and born in a private stud program in
Egypt and imported directly to the United States and registered by the Arabian
Horse Registry of America prior to the extension of the EAO's supervision to
private Egyptian stud programs as reflected in Volume 4 of the EAO's stud book.
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