The Arabian Head
F
rom the very beginning I could pick an Arabian at a thousand paces. Whether it were in a haphazard mob in a roadside paddock, watching a horse working a few cows in a dusty arena, tied to a truck at a horse show, sweaty and irritable after a long hot day of pony club, or competing in District Hack at the local agricultural show. Without realising it, I would see them …my eyes were drawn to them like a magnet.
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ARABIAN STUDS & STALLIONS 2022
There is little doubt that the head of the Arabian horse is one of its most distinctive features. What are those perfect numbers; the magic ratios which spell breeding and history; and where did I learn them? How did noticing the head become instinctive? I am incredibly lucky to have amassed an amazing library of Arabian horse books. I have scoured and collected over the years, and been blessed to have libraries passed
down to me. I am not sure if many of today’s fans are so lucky as to have such a wealth of information at their fingertips and to have grown up building a picture of this ancient breed based on centuries of texts. And so I decided to draw together some of the finest descriptions, some of the pillars of perpetuating the breed type. Some of the most beautiful and clear explanations of what an Arabian horse was, and why it was so.
