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Just finished retyping the entire Albert W. Harris article
that is the preamble to Stud Book V, as another ridecamper wondered where he
could get his hands on it to read it in its entirety. I just thought the
following quote was of interest, in view of the thread in which I first quoted
him. This is a portion of his closing paragraph. (Remember, this was
written in 1944....)
Heidi
Albert
W. Harris writes: "Because man has not changed him much, the Arab remains
the wonderful horse he has always been.
There was an impression among some horsemen that, if a breed of horse was
very good, a larger horse of that breed would be better and thus many breeds
have been nearly ruined before the horsemen discovered their mistake. Neither can Arabian horses be made
better by being changed and bred larger; that has also been demonstrated. Thus has the Arabian horse been kept
unchanged since he first came upon the scene thousands of years ago and it is
imperative to keep him so. "
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