To judge: 3 stallion productions and 8 years of mare .. The father and mother share 50% of hereditary traits.
“Serendipity played an important role in his relationship with Arabian horses, until he became one of the leading horse breeders in the world and took care of writing books about them.”
The former president of the World Organization for Arabian Horse “WAHO” is Hans Nagel, who started his career in the field of poultry farming. Hans Nagel visited Egypt to promote his own business, but fate wanted him to meet the Chairman of the Committee for the Improvement of Arabians with the Egyptian Agricultural Authority, Dr. Amin Zahir, who made him love the Egyptian Arabian horse. Therefore, he bought from Egypt the sons of “Marafiq”, and some other horses. “Hanan” is considered the most important mare and the one he loved so much and wrote a book about her.
Dr. Hans Nagel affirms: “He has a special space in his heart for the“ Zahra Station ”for breeding Arabian horses affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, and he feels very happy because he remembers the first days of his life, adding,“ Coincidence played an important role in my relationship with Arabian horses. The first that I will not forget from this world doctor.
He explains: “When I loved horses and wanted to buy horses from“ Zahra Station ”to raise them in Germany, Zahir advised me to acquire the children of the“ companion ”horse that was exported to the United States of America because they are distinguished by beauty, and thus they kept this line of Egyptian Arab foals on my farm in Germany.
He continued: “The Egyptian Arabian horses played a great role in spreading the Egyptian horse culture all over the world, and I remember buying the first foal in 1964, Then he bought 8 foals from Egypt, and how they were among the most beautiful Egyptian Arabian horses, ”saying:“ I visited a group of Polish cleats, but Zahra Station is always in my memory.
” With regard to horse sailors, Hans said: “The Arabs are pedigreeing them from the mother’s side, which is considered illogical from a scientific point of view, because these horses are only in the mind of the Arabs, but they are concerned with the aesthetic qualities of the horse, to a large extent from its lineage. And he continued: “Although both the father and the mother share 50% of the genetic traits, I think that the male horse is more important than the mother because you can release the male to more than forty mare per season, and all of these foals carry 50% of the genetic traits of this father, the female gives birth only once a year, and therefore the male is better and more beneficial, and we can judge the father’s production well after he gives birth at least three times, while we must wait for the mother 8 years to judge her.
On the relationship of the halter to some of the formal characteristics of horses, Hans explained: “I do not think so, but there is a link and a relationship between the mare production line and some associated formal characteristics, but the mares production line may have a relationship with the formal qualities, and there are some Arab countries that are interested in some horses such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq, You find them more interested in “Al-Abina and Al-Saqlawy” than other Arsans.
Larry Nagel: “The Arabian horse is distinguished by not being large or long in heigh, Mostly, its height is about 150 cm, while other breeds reach more than 150 cm, and the other distinctive feature of the Arabian horse is the clear concavity of the nose. As for other breeds of horses, the face is straight, as in the English horse, or convex, as in the sea horses and the Roman nose. The Arabian horse is also distinguished by the twisting of the tail, the hunching of the head vitality, boldness and beauty.
