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I notice a lot of horses at today’s Arab meeting at Taunton have thoroughbred pedigrees and the same applied last week at Hereford. For example Southern Cross in the 1.35 today is by Mount Nelson out of Bread of Heaven/ Machiavellian and has even run 21 times under rules here. There are plenty of others similar.
How does this horse qualify as an Arab? I always thought it was down to the breeding and that they hadn’t run in thoroughbred races.
Some horses are part bred Arab’s and Anglo Arab’s and may have a mixture of Arab and thoroughbred blood and are qualified to race in Aarab races if properly registered.
From the BHA rule book. Full rues here http://www.aroracing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/BHA-Regulations-for-Arabian-Horseracing-2014.pdf
22B.
(i)
Subject to Sub-Regulation (ii) below, no Pure Br
ed, Anglo Arab or Part Bred horse running in
Great Britain shall be eligible to run in any
Race until it has been parentage identified to a
minimum of two generations, to the satisfacti
on of ARO, and there is confirmation, to the
satisfaction of ARO, that where the parentage
has been verified it must have been verified for
both those two generations against the origi
nal blood or DNA sample taken at the first
registration.
For the avoidance of doubt two generations means the sire and dam of the
horse and its two grand sires and two grand dams.Thanks Ken, seems a lot more complicated and less stringent than I thought it would be.
It’s more simple than that. Certain ARO races, designated as ‘Open’, allow pure Thoroughbreds to enter alongside the Arabians and Anglos.
There are rules & regulations which stipulate in what conditions a TB can run in an Open race, along the same lines as point-to-point eligibility e.g. they have to be in the care of an ARO registered trainer, mustn’t have run under Rules for a certain period of time etc. But it’s not that their breeding fundamentally changes.
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