Anglo-Arab

The Anglo-arabe is an equine race of French origin. Its official abbreviation is AA .

Origin

The Anglo-Arab finds its origins in a race spread in Bigorre (Hautes-Pyrénées): the horse navarrin. Certainly originating in Navarre, this horse was very widespread in the plain of Tarbes with XVIIIe. At the beginning of the 19th century. Napoleon 1st sought has to improve this local race for military needs (war with Spain. The English thorough-bred then the Arab thorough-bred, then served " of améliorateurs" in order to obtain an at the same time resistant and light horse. The crossings were practiced starting from first half of the XIXe century in the deposit of standard of Tarbes (the stud-book of 1833 attests officially the race of the horse " Anglo-Arab says horse tarbais. The stud farm of Gélos (close to Pau) then starting from second half of the 19th century the Limousin contributed to the emergence of the Anglo-Arabe horse. Nowadays the South-west of France constitutes the principal area of production.

Its type is thus intermediate between the two races, the Arab bringing in addition to his qualities of beauty and elegance, its qualities of behavior, resistance, lightness in the pace S, and an ancestral aptitude for the saddle and to carry the weight of the rider, the Thorough-bred as for him, bringing, in addition to its size, all the power of its selection directed towards speed. The Anglo-Arab is, with the French Selle, one of the two great races of horses of saddle of French origin.

Two subcategories exist within the Anglo-arabes race of the “subcategories”.

Arab percentage of blood

The Anglo-Arabs strictly speaking must have 25% of Arab blood at least and among them, are distinguished the Anglo-Arabs having at least 50% from Arab blood (Anglo-Arabs “with 50” resulting for example from the crossing of an English Thorough-bred and an Arab Thorough-bred) and the Anglo-Arabs having at least 25% but less than 50% of Arab blood (anglo “with 25” resulting for example from the crossing of an Anglo-Arab with 50 and an English Thorough-bred). The “Anglo-Arabs” having less than 25% of Arab blood are called Anglo-arabes additional, among them, those having less than 12.5% of Arab blood even receive in more the mention A.Q.P.S. (Other That English Thorough-bred) under certain conditions do not bear more the name of Anglo-Arab but simply that of AQPS.

These categories, little used in the world of the equestrian Sports are important in race: more the Arab percentage of blood is weak (and thus percentage of high English blood) and more the horse is likely to be fast. There thus exist races (punts) separate for the Anglo-Arabs with 50 and the Anglo-Arab with 25, the Anglo-Arabs additional run all with other horses AQPS.

The origin of the ascending ones

Certain Anglo-arabes horses have only English Thorough-bred and Thorough-bred Arab among their ancestors, one calls sometimes them “thorough-bred Anglo-Arabs”, noted *AA* (or *AC* for the anglos additional). They are registered with book 1 of the stud-book of the Anglo-Arab horse. Certain Anglo-Arab horses have a small proportion (maximum 1/16e) of horses other than English Pur-sang and Thorough-bred Arab among their ancestors. They are sometimes called “half-bred Anglo-Arab”, noted AA (or AC for the Anglo-Arabs additional) and are registered with book 2 of the stud-book of the Anglo-arabe horse. Since 2004, horses very close to the Anglo-Arabs are called Anglo-arabe of crossing, noted AACR, they are registered with book 3 of the stud-book of the Anglo-arabe horse. These horses must at least have 12.5% of Arab blood and, except exception, at least ¾ the their ascending ones which are English Pur-sang, Arab Pur-sang or Anglo-Arabs. The importance of the Arab percentage of blood and the opening of the stud-book to horses other than English Thorough-bred and Thorough-bred Arab (creation of book 3) make debate within the race.

Morphology

The profile of the head is rather rectilinear even camus. The croup long and is well directed. The general framework is rather light, with dry and “well soaked” members. The Anglo-Arab is in the beginning a little taller than the Arab, but its size tended to increase and the subjects of 1,66 m to the garrot are not rare any more. One meets all the dress S, but the bai, the chestnut horse and the gray are most frequent. The Anglo-Arab, ultimately, is a horse distinguished, very esthetic in its head and harmonious of body, with the paces flexible and brilliant, with much of personality what in fact its charm. However, the model seems to intervene less and less in the selection of the reproducers, to have typified horses “anglo” is not perhaps more one criterion of breeding.

Cattle-breeding area

Its traditional cattle-breeding areas are around the stud farms of Pau, Saintes, Tarbes, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Aurillac, Rodez, Uzès (of which the Corsica ) and of the stud farm of Pompadour. This last manages a national jumentery devoted to the breeding of the Arab and Anglo-Arab. The Anglo-Arab is also high in rather great number in the districts of Compiegne, Angers and the Pine. There exist Anglo-Arab standards in all the districts. 80% of the Anglo-Arab brood mares are covered to produce Anglo-Arab.

Aptitudes and uses

Its aptitude for the jump and the gallop, like its elegance and its resistance make a horse of competition of it very appreciated, in Saut of obstacles, raising or Endurance (horsemanship). In complete contest, its address natural makes wonder and he is recognized as of now like one of the best races of the world for this discipline. The Anglo-Arab also lays out, in the South-western quarter of the France, of a program equipped well with obstacle and flat races. It is measured often successfully with the other races of horses (Thorough-bred and French Saddle of type AQPS) in the obstacle races. Qualities first of beauty, harmony, of resistance and address, its aptitude to carry the rider and to move with ease, make a marvellous saddle horse of it, in horsemanship of outside or leisure.

The Anglo-Arab has specificity to be, since its origin used for the races and the equestrian sports, even selected by the race for the saddle (goes up armies, then thereafter equestrian sports). This specificity is called more and more into question and the lines “race” and “sport” tend more and more to separate. The Anglo-Arab “of race” is more and more a racehorse punt and the Anglo-Arab “of sport” more and more a horse of Concours of jump of obstacles (CSO), the transformation of the complete Concours of horsemanship (the CEC), in particular the suppression of the steeplechase, will amplify this evolution. To be convinced some, it is enough to look at which are the horses which are approved standards: only one or two Anglo-Arabs of race ran in obstacles and among the Anglo-Arabs of sport, hardly more are horses of the CEC. The question of knowing so Anglo-Arab of race and sport must be regarded as two separate races or on the contrary if it is necessary to continue to use reproducers race to produce horses of sport causes sharp tensions within the race.

The future of the Anglo-Arab seems very dubious: during the creation of the world classification of the races, there is a score of years, the Anglo-Arab was “on the podium” in the CEC and appeared with the classification in CSO. Today, it is far with the classification in the CEC and does not appear even any more with the classification in CSO. The number of Anglo-Arab births in France falls and the Anglo-Arab standards are less and less used by the other races, in particular in French Selle.

See too

complete Contest of horsemanship, discipline or excel the Anglo-Arabs.

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