How many different breeds of Arabian Horses are there?
There are at least four: Egyptian, Russian, Polish, and Spanish. When they are intermingled into a horse’s pedigree with no dominant type, it is referred to as “Domestic” bred. When the tribes in Saudi Arabia were dispersed due to war, several people, seeing the value of protecting the breed, stepped in to take the horses of the land. Each sector or region acquired slightly different characteristics. It is believed that Straight Egyptian Arabians are the closest to the true breeding of the original Arabian horse of the Bedouin tribes.
