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AHR:
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Anacronym for the Arabian Horse Registry, the organization in charge of registration records and ownership. They recently merged with the IAHA and formed the Arabian Horse Association. |
| AAHA: |
Anacronym for the Alabama Arabian Horse Association. |
| Babson: |
A group of horses imported from Egypt and bred by Henry Babson resulting in extreme consistency of type. |
| Competitive Trail: |
A competition where horses are judged based on how they negotiate obstacles on a natural trail course. |
| Dressage: |
A form of riding in which the horse receives nearly invisible cues from the rider and performs them with perfect balance. Dressage teaches a horse to be attentive, collected, balanced, responsive, and relaxed and is the basis of training for all disciplines of riding. |
| Endurance Racing: |
A competition where horses are judged over a long distance for soundness, condition and speed. |
| GAHA: |
Anacronym for the Georgia Arabian Horse Association. |
| Hand: |
A unit of measurement for measuring the height of horses. A hand is four inches, and is measured from the ground to the point of the withers of the horse. A 15 hand horse would be 60 inches or 5' at the highest point of their withers. A 15.1 hand horse would be 61 inches or 5'1" at the highest point of their withers. |
| Hunt Seat: |
A style of riding that utilizes the movement and control needed for the fox hunt or jumping. |
Pedigree: |
A recorded list of a horses ancestors. |
| Saddle Seat: |
A style of riding that imitates the high stepping park horse movement stylish in the 1800's. |
| Saqlawi Jedran: |
It has been said that this strain is the most courageous of the strains. They are typified by excellent trotting action, well proportioned and substantially boned, have tremendous hearth girth, pronounced withers, well laid back shoulders with long scapula and tapering muzzles with a dish below the eyes and a long and fine foreface. |
| Sporthorse: |
Sporthorse in hand ~ Horses are judged on manners, obedience, collection, freedom of movement and suitability for the sporthorse disciplines. This can extend on to dressage, hunter/jumper, cross country jumping, eventing. |
| Strain Pedigree: |
"A strain is a family in the breed. An inbred family in any breed would have certain characteristics that may distinguish it from other individuals of the breed. There may be more than one family and each one may have it's own marks (phsyical characteristics). This used to happen in the case of sticking to family breeding as Arabs used to do." *
*The Classic Arabian Horse by Judith Forbis.
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