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Arabians & Half-Arabians

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Hey how many of you love/own/ride/show an Arab or Half-Arab? I ride a National Show Horse and we do western and saddle seat. What do you guys do with your Arabs and Half-Arabs?
 
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Half Arabs

Half arabians are terrific! My Curly X Arabian mare is the best trail horse/show horse ever. She is surefooted, smart, outgoing and very beautiful. Arabian head with the curly body, nice and solid but yet petitie. She could go alllll day and not have a problem. Great feet too. She is also gaited. :D
 
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I have an Arab mare that we just bought this last spring. She is around 8 or 9 and I am blown away by her!! She is amazing - I'm not sure if she is just special or if all Arabs are this great. We bought her as a family horse - especially for my 7-year old daughter who is completely horse crazy. We will be trail riding eventually (this will be new for Lily) but in the meantime we are riding her in the round pen and pasture.

For a while I was beginning to think that we bought too much horse and that we should have looked at one that was dead broke. My criteria was that a horse be very gentle on the ground and know how to whoa with ease. This horse does have both but she also has lots of energy so I was questioning my judgment in buying her after we got her home (my daughter did take her for a test ride in the arena (walk/trot) and they did fine so at the time I wasn't too concerned). My fears are quickly diminishing. My daughter spends lots of time just hanging out with Lily and we've been doing groundwork with her when possible before we ride. They are really developing a strong relationship. She can be absolutely full of it but when my daughter is around she mellows right out and becomes a completely different horse. Next week we are going to walk over to local stable and my daughter is going to have a real riding lesson on her. I hope it goes well!!
 
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I have a couple arabs, most are just used in lessons,etc,but I have only had 2 arabians that were my personal horses.
Princess is a 13.2 Arabian. She brought me through countless short stirrup classes and taught me everything their is to know about hunters. She is not at all your typical arabian, although she definitely does look the part, she does not have the temperment or movement of an arab. I showed her hunters and equitation and now, as I have outgrown her, she is teaching a little 4 year old at our barn.
Belle was a 14.1 hand arabian pony. She was the horse that actually got me into hunters and brought me to many of my first rated shows and 4h shows. I showed her for about 2 and a half years, but due to colic she had to be put down after she had 3 colic surgeries over her lifetime.
 
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I have a pinto half arab who I got a year ago when my previous mare died. She has been a dream to work with. Super smart and willing to please not to mention beautiful. :D
 
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I've got one gelding that I'm hoping to show Western Pleasure next year, and then he'll be going in for cutting training.
Another mare I want to start in cutting also, as well as reining.
My Khoda stud I'm hoping will be a reiner. We might have some fun and play around with Western Pleasure and see how that goes.
Another mare and my Justice stallion I'd like to show halter next year.
And, of course, trail riding just goes in the with mixture.
I'm hoping to get my Blue boy up the mountains sometime! :)
 
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I have ben around arbians most of my life, even worked at abig arab barn! They were so pretty. I currantly have a appy, arab cross that i'm doing endurance with. He is very versatile, cause we ahve doen pretty much everything except dressage so far! he has doen well in everything, but loves going fast down the trails and poles.
 
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I've ridden and shown arabs and half arabs for a about 12 years. I love them. The only thing i have not had a chance to do on them is the driving and working cow classes. But one of my half arabs is broke to drive so maybe one day i'll get to do it.
 
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I love 'em! I've owned a couple half Arabians, and I had two wonderful purebred Arabians....I'll post some pics of the purebreds here.... The grey was a gelding I used to own, he was an *Exelsjor son and so fun to ride (that is a friend of mine riding him in the pic), he was totally bombproof. And the chestnut was a mare I owned for 22 years (both have since passed away), she was a *Hal Gazal granddaughter....both were a Crabbet/Polish cross. My mare was also very calm and sweet and gentle too, and a blast to ride. I sure miss them.


 
#23 ·
I have owned a 1/2 Arabian, Appaloosa for 14 years and she is my once in a lifetime horse. She is the most fantastic thing I've ever ridden. We've done everything it feels like and she never gives up. When I got her she was doing jumpers and I changed her to western, then endurance. . we trained and did endurance for 2 years in college then due to continued injuries switched to barrel racing and she excelled in that too!! Now that she is 20 we are slowly working on getting back into trail shape and plan on doing the saddle log program starting next January. It's not anything big but it gives us something to do.

I will forever look for a horse like Sterling once she is gone and I guarantee I will own another Arabian cross in my life!! I have a mare out of her that is going to be great but she isn't her Mother. . at least not yet! She's got big horse shoes to fill!!





 
#24 ·
I'll be completely honest here, Arabs use to be my "least" favorite horse. But when it came time to buy a horse of my own instead of leasing just before I finished high school, guess what I walked away with. Yep you got it an Arab. Rakziha had me at hello, and I didn't even want to go look at him just becaue he was an Arab. The ONLY reason I went to look at him was because he was a friend of a friends horse & I would of felt awful if I would of completely blew her off. I got him at the age of 20 and 6 years later he still does everything he did then & then some. I agree they are a very strudy breed. I'd have to admit~its still not my favorite of all time breeds but Rakziha has defiently earned the respect that I didnt' give Arabs before. He sure changed my mind!



This was this past winter!! Silly fence was in the way... but you get the picture!
 
#25 ·
I have two purebred Arabs, two Arab/Appaloosa crosses and two Arab/Quarter Horse crosses. Though I'll tell you till I'm blue in the face I am not fond of Arabs clearly they're fond of me! I keep landing up with them. My only non Arab is my POA.

I did it all with my Arab/Arab crosses. Dressage, Hunters, Jumpers, Cross Country, mild and extreme trail riding, games, barrel racing, cattle penning ect. I find that they will do just about anything if you ask them nicely.
 
#26 ·
I have a 22 yr old Arab/Saddlebred who has done it all and I use him for trail he's great still thinks he's 10 sometimes though.
Then I have an arab/pinto gelding 9 yrs old that my 8yr old granddaughter started doing games with this year and he's sooo good to her, I thought he'd be too feisty but he rocks.
I also have his full sister, who is a wild child and couldn't be broke (at least not to my liking) but she's wonderful on the ground and has great manners so she's our pasture pal. Here's Nikko (the old one) and Knight (the gamer)
 
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