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Without immediate intervention, we could lose the Desert Arabian horse within the next generation
- The Desert Arabian horse is one of the oldest of breeds, developed by the Bedouin who bred them pure for thousands of years.
- The Desert Arabian horse provided the foundation stock to create almost all other light breeds of horse.
- Fewer than 8 percent of the 400,000 modern Arabian horses registered worldwide descend exclusively from the original Bedouin horse: these are the last Desert Arabian horses.
- New births of Desert Arabian horses have declined over 60 percent in the past decade; fewer than 800 fillies were born worldwide in 2010 – to mares that average 18 years of age.
Once lost, this precious genetic pool can never be restored. Only immediate intervention can save this breeding population for the next generation.
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TRACK THE NUMBERS: |
Total US Purebred registrations of foals born in: 2015: 3281 2014: 2613 2013: 2916 2012: 3391 2011: 3606 2010: 4041 2009: 3395 |
Total US registered Desert Arabian foals born in: 2015: 320* 2014: 357* 2013: 582 2012: 532 2011: 585 2010: 679 2009: 773 Numbers for all years are updated as additional horses are registered (last update January 2016). *Al Khamsa, Inc. has not updated the AHA database to include AK-eligible horses since 2013. Therefore, the numbers for 2014 and 2015 reflect only desert Arabians meeting The Pyramid Society definition of straight Egyptian. |
| The Institute estimates that fewer than 1500 Desert Arabians are foaled worldwide each year. Most are born in North America, Egypt, Germany, Syria, and the Gulf states. |