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Re: [RC] My take on Aladinn - Laney Humphrey

I remember articles in "Arabian Horse World" about Turkish and Iranian arabians. They sounded like they would be excellent bloodlines to have access to. They weren't pretty horses so I doubt any will get imported any time soon.
Laney


heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
If I recall my history correctly, the Russians didn't just "import"
their Polish Arabs, they stole them, taking them as spoils of war in
WW2. Gen. Patton rescued some of the Polish horses from the Germans
(including Witez II) and the Russians took the rest of them.


Some of their stock of that era, yes.  But even earlier than that, the
Russians DID have a breeding program, and actually, Skowronek was born on
Russian soil, not Polish, if you want to get right down to it.  Russia,
like Poland, also imported horses from Crabbet in the pre-WWII days.

It is what the Russians have done post-WWII that is of concern to me--like
Poland, they have continued to breed a few classical sorts of Arabians,
but like Poland, they have also gotten into their own version of this
modern "craze" and in fact have imported a lot of modern Polish horses
that are all too similar to some of the modern Polish horses coming here. One can indeed find some very nice Russian horses. But in many cases both
in pedigree and type it is difficult to distinguish some of them from the
modern Polish horses.


Heidi



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Replies
Re: [RC] My take on Aladinn, Chris Paus
Re: [RC] My take on Aladinn, Barbara McCrary
Re: [RC] My take on Aladinn, heidi