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Type in the Arab

by Ben Hur (Western Horseman March 1951) IS THE ARABIAN horse a gift of nature, a natural , primary type like the wild beast of the fields and forests? Or is it a modified and developed type, created under man's influence? Type is that distinctive, familiar shape which immediately identifies a horse and classifies it with its breed. Type makes the breed. The type of your favorite breed is as …

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Polish Arabians May Have Been Saved

by Ben Hur (Western Horseman Mar/Apr'44) Raffles, by champion Skowronek, out of champion Rifala. Friends and students of Arabian horses will be deeply interested in the report that the castle and estate of Count Potocki in war-harassed Poland have been saved from destruction. A deep American interest in the Arabian horses of Poland arises from the fact that during the past ten years or so the …

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General Ulysses S. Grant’s Arabians

by Ben Hur (Western Horseman May/Jun '47) General U. S. Grant of Civil War (U.S. 1861-65) fame and twice elected president of the United States, did not live to know that an Arabian stallion presented to him by Sultan of Turkey became many years later, the earliest Arabian stallion to be registered in the stud book of The Arabian Horse Club of America. It was one of those queer quirks of fate by …

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