Long, tall legs and rippling manes… flashing floaty strides.. Moving quickly over swift feet underneath.. Curving and rippling tails, gracefully carried high and dreamily blowing through the wind… Arched necks and long rippling manes floating away from the slender neck… Eyes glance at her swiftly stealing away… Then ye are all eyes! Carrying herself proudly… her dish face gleaming in the sunshine… Neat pretty feet rise and land gently to the ground under her… With slender neat legs… You watch till she is gone… Then you know her… The Graceful Arabian! – Aaisha Muhammad
The Arabian is a very graceful breed, and one of the most easy-to-identify breed. Everybody looks at the horse, and in a flash, they can say it is Arab. Their distinct dish face, arched neck, and high-carried tail gives it away. Well, the last one, not so much, but other distinct features make people sure of them.
The Arabian Horse comes in various solid colors, such as bay, black, chestnut, and also come in dapples. Dappled grey Arabs are common. The black is a very graceful color for them, and one of my favorite colors in Arabs is a pure black, with a soft, snow white star on the forehead. Regardless of coat color, their skin is black. That is why their noses are always black, occasionally with a snip or other marking on it. Around their eyes, the skin is also black, clearly visible on white or dapple grey horses.
Unfortunately, nowadays, people apply oils and other things to make the black shine more and to increase it. In a show, here in South Africa, almost every single Arabian is wearing oils and conditioners to exaggerate the blackness. I, however, like them in their natural form far better.
They are still a few wild arabs left, but not too many.
The Arabian is categorized as a lightweight horse, weighing only 450KG as a full grown adult. They stand 1.4 – 1.6 meters at the wither once full grown.
The Arab has been crossed with other breeds to make different horses. The Anglo-Arab has even made it as an individual breed, rather than just a plain crossbreed. They are actually Thoroughbred crossed with Arabian. They are cheaper than the usual, purebred arabians, and are sometime cheated as unregistered Arabians, whereas they are Anglos. By this, I mean that people claim it to be a Purebred Arab, price of them, as unregistered, whereas they actually give you an Anglo. So you get an Anglo for the price of a normal Arab. Then they are other crosses, such as Appy(appaloosa) X Arab, Friesian X Arab, and many others.
So that is about it for the Arab, I know it isn’t much, but please remember, I only write what I know And I cannot write much about the Arab. So yea, bye, se ya next time!