Arab Haflinger

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From the crossing of Arabs and Haflingers , known as Arabo Haflingers , a slender horse type with the golden top coat and the blond long hair of the Haflinger was bred. This small horse will in future be known as the Arab Haflinger (AH) horse breed in Austria .

Arab Haflinger
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Important data
Origin: Austria
Main breeding area: Austria
Distribution: Europe
Stick measure : 140-150 cm
Colors : Light foxes and other colors
Main application area: Riding , leisure and driving horse

Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .

A large part of the registered population is currently descended from Arab stallions and Haflinger mares. The mating of these two breeds is not entirely unproblematic: the offspring often have an inharmonious physique (weak hindquarters, heads that are too powerful) or simply too much temperament for the strong physique and are not suitable for children and beginners. In the future, the breed will continue to be bred from the resulting breeding line without additional Haflinger blood and with only a little Arab blood ( ox ). The ox percentage is the criterion for belonging to the Arab Haflinger breed . The blood proportion of the two original breeds will be between 25 and 75%, the noble blood proportion is usually a maximum of 37.5% if the Haflinger exterior is preserved.

Exterior

The fox color predominates and is desirable, but there are also duns and other colors, including mold , quite often . The color is not an assessment criterion for belonging to the Arab Haflinger breed. The breeding goal is tailored to a versatile and undemanding riding horse in a small horse frame. The Arab Haflinger should have a body in the rectangular format with a height of approx. 140–150 cm, a noble, dry head, similar to the Arab, with wide nostrils and speaking eyes, and a free ganache. The neck should be long enough, nicely curved and without a lower neck, the withers well developed, the long shoulder sloping, the chest not too wide, but as deep as possible, the metacarpus harmoniously to match the overall impression, with a well-tensed back, oval rib and correct end . Particular emphasis is placed on a long, strong, harmoniously round croup and the best angulation. Strong joints, dry tendons, healthy hooves, and medium-sized tubes (18–19 cm) are required for a correct foundation. Saddle position and gait ability as well as hoof quality and softness of the gaits are more pronounced than in Haflingers.

interior

The Arab-Haflinger breed is supposed to combine the positive characteristics of the two original breeds: toughness and unpretentiousness, impeccable character, pleasant but lively temperament and high motivation. Arabian Haflinger horses should be able to be used as driving, vaulting, dressage, jumping, eventing, western, trail riding, therapy and family horses.

Breeding history

Arab Haflinger, at mating season

Around 1960, individual Austrian Haflinger breeders began attempting to refine them. In Styria , breeding trials with Arabian stallions were carried out at the Derfflinger stud in Leoben as early as 1960 , but these were not continued. Refinement products can occasionally be found in the upper Murtal . From 1964 on, Rittmeister Jeszensky established a refined Haflinger line with the Shagya Arab stallion K-Amurath II-1 in Kammer am Attersee. The Upper Austrian Horse Breeding Association listed these breeding products of the F1 generation in the pony register, and in the R1 generation already in the Haflinger register. The winning mare also comes from the Amurath progeny in a central studbook record in 1987. Today, however, the O.Ö. Haflinger stud book based on a resolution of the ARGE Haflinger only registered mares with a maximum of 6.25% noble blood. The Tyrolean Association started a breeding attempt with Freiherr in 1976 , but he soon succumbed to a colic attack. As the son of the very heavy Haflinger stallion Meiselstein and a noble Fawzane-ox daughter, he was tall, but not very noble and inharmonious. His offspring were allegedly taken out of breeding, but can still be found in West German stud books. In 1998, the Lower Austrian breeders brought in some Arabian blood with the Saxon Haflinger stallion Galant and the Bavarian stallion Nachtflug , but the grafting campaign seems to be over. In Carinthia , the stallion Nimbus with 6.25% Arab blood was recognized and used in 2005 .

In Salzburg , the thoroughbred Arabian Fawzane ox , a long-lined stallion of the racing type, produced a refined line with a Carinthian Haflinger mare between 1970 and 1980, which was developed within the framework of the Salzburg Haflinger Association under the management of Dr. Holz, chairman of the state association for rural riders, was used for back-breeding with Reinhaflingers. This breeding attempt was decided by the association's board in 1974, but was suspended again in 1979, which meant that the young horses that had grown up in the meantime would no longer have been recognized as breeding animals. But their owners did not agree with that. In the spring of 1979, an independent breeding association for Arab Haflinger horses was founded, which was approved by the authorities and recognized by the Chamber of Agriculture. The original area of ​​activity for the State of Salzburg was extended to the entire federal territory at the beginning of 1993.

See also

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