Origin
During the Islamic conquest in the 7th and 8th century, Berber horses were cross-breeded with Arab horses. This way, the Arab-Berber horse came up over 1000 years ago. Through systematic cross-breeding a new race was achieved, that combines the advantages of both origin breeds in a unique way.
These horses are brave, have nerves like steel, and are robust and faithful like the Berber horse. Likewise they have the speediness, the persistence and the beauty of the Arab horses.
The Berber horse – home in North Africa – is, next to the Arab horse, the second "well" of nearly all Horse breeds in the world. It is a desert horse like the better known Arab horse, but both differ clearly in Terms of appearance and personality. You can even assume that the Berber horse is older than the Arab horse. The exact parentage is still in dispute and since there are no records, this will probably not change.
The Arab Berber Horse spreading in North Africa
Spreading
In countries like Spain, France and Italy, the Arab-Berber-Horse is well known and enjoys as great popularity. As it does in its origin countries Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
The Arab Berber Horse is the widest spread horse breed of North Africa. It has a share of 90% of the population. Followed by the pure bred Arab Horse, the Anglo Arab Horse as well as the Berber Horse.
Description
The Arab Berber Horse features through its soft and fluent walks. Persons with sensitive spines highly appreciate this. A withers height between 1,50 m and 1,60 m as well as the athletic body feature them also for bigger and heavy weight riders!
We set a high value on an honest character of our horses. Our Horses like to be close to humans. They are watchful and as an old War-Horse-Breed, almost fearless. They are as qualified for an ambitious leisure-time rider as they are for tournaments or western- and distance rides .
BREED – SHORT PORTRAIT
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Long, accented withers height |
Very strong back |
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Sloped croup |
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Compact, athletic neck |
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Strong prow |
Low tail |
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These horses are held in high regard by the Moroccan Royal Family because of their character as well as their pace habitude. The Arab Berber presents itself also in this 4th gear, with pleasing but not excessive activity. It moves in a way that makes it possible to use this motion also for a long ride without too much effort. In Morocco it can happen that you ride 30 km in the morning to get to the next market and back the same day. Doing this, you appreciate a comfortable horse!