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[RC] Info on South American horses - Donna Coss(The horses in question were not mongrel horses, but well bred individuals--AHA has spent thousands of dollars on this lawsuit to what avail? Is it really important that some of the descendants of these horses are not 100% pure? Especially when, BEFORE BLOOD TESTING or DNA, how many /behind the barn breedings/ more then likely have occurred in the good old U.S.A.?? Purity in breeding is only important now when horses can be blood-typed--why waste time worrying about horses several generations in the past? Unless you are a hard-core Arabian purist, does it really matter? If you are, then you will avoid horses with South American breeding!) "Horses in South America were part of the deadlock between the Arabian Horse Registry of America (AHRA) and the World Arabian Horse Association (WAHO). This article answers some frequently asked questions about the South American horses. The AHRA mentioned thousands of horses in South America with bloodlines it would not recognize as purebred Arabian. Which South American foundation horses are in question? The foundation horses are O'Bajan V-6, Hamdani Semri I-9, O'Bajan-7, and Kurdo III. The first three were bred at the Babolna state stud in Hungary. Kurdo III was the son of a horse from Babolna. These four horses were imported to South America in the years just prior to World War I. Laszlo Monostory, former commanding officer of the Hungarian state stud Alsozsuk, mentions another category of horses recognized in Hungary, which he calls in English "Anglo-Arab purebreds." These combine Arabian and Thoroughbred blood only. According to Monostory, in the records of the Hungarian state studs such horses were recorded in purple ink, while purebred Arabians were recorded in green ink, English Thoroughbreds in red ink, and partbreds in black ink. In his book on Babolna, Dr. Hecker mentions that a slightly different color coding system was used during the 19th century. Who was 30 Maria? According to the 1972 Babolna stud book, the first edition of volume I of the Polish Arabian Stud Book, and Dr. Walter Hecker's history of Babolna, the Austro-Hungarian broodmare 30 Maria was an English Thoroughbred foaled in 1842. Maria's registration as a Thoroughbred and her foals born in England appear in Weatherby's General Stud Book, which states, "Sold to the Austrian Government in 1852, before foaling" (see volume VII, page 230). The pedigree for 30 Maria appears here. She was left in England to foal and then brought to the Austrian stud of Piber later in 1852. The Austro-Hungarian government established the stud farm of Kisber in 1853 for breeding Thoroughbreds and Thoroughbred crosses, and Maria was sold to Kisber in 1854. On May 3, 1861, she was bred to the imported desert bred stallion Aghil Aga, producing a bay filly on April 7, 1862. The filly was designated 3 Aghil Aga when she entered the broodmare band at Babolna, and the 30 Maria line descends through her. 30 Maria herself was transferred from Kisber to Mezoehegyes in October of 1862. Her last owner was Baron Bela Wenckheim; 30 Maria died in 1865. The broodmare daughters of 3 Aghil Aga included 6 Mahmoud Mirza (1870), 35 Mahmoud Mirza (1871), and 90 Mehemed Ali (1878), but it was through 6 Mahmoud Mirza that Babolna developed a long line of horses with Arabian blood plus 30 Maria. A more recent example of such breeding is 30 Maria's tail-female descendant 125 Ghalion, born in 1975. After 12 generations of crossing to Arabian stallions, 125 Ghalion has just 0.024% of 30 Maria's blood. The 30 Maria line appears in WAHO pedigrees through Babolna bloodlines that went to South America and Babolna lines that went to Romania. One of 30 Maria's first descendants to stand at Babolna as a chief sire was O'Bajan I. A son of his was sold to Germany where he sired Kurdo III."
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