Glossary of Arabian Jargan
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Confused?
When we started learning about the different categorizations of Arabian
horses we sure were! People were throwing around strain names, terms like Blue
List, straight Egyptian, Sheykh Obeyd, Post 58, Volume 5. Much of it was
contradictory. This is our attempt to clarify what some of the terms mean.
 | Line
breeding, inbreeding and outcross
 | Line breeding: This is a common practice used in livestock
breeding to strengthen positive traits. One does need to be aware that
there is a risk of perpetuating weakness as well. Line breeding involves
breeding closely related animals resulting in several ancestors
appearing more than once in the pedigree. A common practice is to breed
a sire to his granddaughters.
| Inbreeding: Used for the same reasons as line breeding but
involves breeding closely related animals, such as father to daughter or
full brother to full sister.
| Outcross: Adds genetic diversity and "hybrid vigor"
but also makes offspring's characteristics hard to predict and
inconsistent. |
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| Strains
and Strain-Types including what does Pure-in-the-strain
mean anyway?
| Tail-female and tail-male
| Tail-female refers to the line tracing from the dam to her dam
to her dam on back to the original root mare.
| Tail-male refers to the line tracing from the sire to his sire
to his sire on back to the original root stallion. |
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| What do those Arabic
horse names mean and how do I pronounce them?
| Straight
Egyptian and Egyptian
Related
| What does "New" Egyptian and "Old"
Egyptian refer to?
| "New" Egyptian means a horse that is straight
Egyptian and contains ancestors tracing to the Inhass ancestral element,
as defined by Al Khamsa.
| "Old" Egyptian refers to horses tracing only to the
Egypt 1, 2 and Blunt ancestral elements as defined by Al Khamsa. |
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| What does that * mean before the horse's name?
| The * simply denotes that the horse was imported into the
United States. |
| Blue
List and BLUE
STAR
| Sheykh
Obeyd
| Al Khamsa Ancestral
Elements
| Ayerza
| Blunt
| Borden
| Cavedo
| Cobb
| Crane
| Davenport
| Dwarka
| Egypt I and II
| Europa (Weil/Babolna)
| Hamidie
| Huntington
| Inhass
| Jiluwi
| Khalifa
| Mirage
| Nejdran
| Richards
| Sa'ud, including *Turfa |
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| Combined Source
| When referring to Al Khamsa combined source breeding, it means a horse
containing mixed source ancestral elements. For example, breeding a
horse of straight Davenport breeding to a horse of straight Sheykh Obeyd
breeding (which includes the ancestral elements of Egypt 1, 2 and Blunt)
or breeding a "new" Egyptian (a straight Egyptian horse
containing the Inhass ancestral element) with a Sheykh Obeyd horse. |
| Coat color short hand
| g is gray
| c is chestnut
| b is bay
| k is black |
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| Homozygous
black and other coat color questions
| *Turfa 1933, g, m, AHR# 2133
| *Turfa was bred by the Saudi Royal Family in the Royal Stud at Khorma.
While she was registered as a Kuhaylah al Khorma, according to Carl
Raswan this was a mistranslation and she was actually an Abayyah al
Humah. The original papers were unfortunately lost. She was imported in
1941 by Henry B. Babson.
| Much confusion surrounds *Turfa, probably because she was owned by the
Babson Farm. *Turfa is defined by Al Khamsa as a foundation mare who
falls under the Sa'ud ancestral element. She is considered to be BLUE
STAR but is neither straight
Egyptian nor Sheykh Obeyd. |
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| The
legendary origin of the Asil Arabian |
| Learn more about the Babson influence in this article to be published in
Arabische Noitzen in 2002. Daal Aba's Living
Sonata. |
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