The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, July 1964 - April, 1965 Page: 304

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some of the cobwebs of legend and tradition be cleared away
from the history of the Arabian horse. If present concepts are
continued, the Arabian horse will be cut off from its root source;
a branch will be mistaken for the tree.
It is significant that registration criteria for the Arabian horse
has been substantially changed in the United States during the
last two decades. The application to transfer the registry of King
Hassan's gift horses was summarily rejected by the Arabian Horse
Club Registry of America. The horses were never inspected, and
in the case of the mare, not even her Moroccan registration and
pedigree were examined prior to rejection. No horses bred in
Morocco, it was said, could be considered for registration since
they would be considered "Barbs" and not purebred Arabians.2
The Arabian Horse Club Registry adhered to that decision in
spite of its Constitution and By-laws, Section II, Rule V, which
declared eligible for registration "Any imported Barb or other
Arab horse not bred in Arabia which is accompanied by authentic
proof of their purity of blood."3
The registration history of the Barbary Arabian horse in Amer-
ica is somewhat bizarre. The American Jockey Club continued to
register purebred Arabians, including Barbary Arabians, as
Thoroughbreds in the American Stud Book until 1943. More
than fifty imports were registered in Volumes I and II, six in
Volume III and eight, all of Middle-East breeding, in Volume
VII. Volumes VIII through XI registered additional Arabians,
though none of North African breeding. In the 1960's, the Ara-
bian Horse Club Registry of America accepted selected purebred
Arabians. The International Arabian Horse Association regis-
tered half-bred Arabians and Arabian-Thoroughbred crosses. The
International Arabian Horse Association, in spite of its name,
however, is dependent upon the Arabian Horse Club Registry
of America. The so-called international association can register
only animals born of parents one of which is registered with the
AHC Registry of America, and it "has no voice or influence on
3Arabian Horse Club Registry of America to L. B. B., May 28, 1962 (MS. in
possession of writer).
8Quoted in George H. Conn, The Arabian Horse in America (Woodstock, Ver-
mont, 1957), 209.

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