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Currently there are less than 18,000 Straight Egyptian Arabians in the
World. This is approximately 3% of the total Arabian Horse population. The key to success in any livestock breeding
is prepotency (the ability of an individual to significantly influence its offspring). Value is determined by prepoteny
and quality and Egyptian horses are the most prepotent strain of the Arabian Horse. No other strain of Arabian was selected
as carefully from such a large group as when Abbas Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, selected his original breeding stock during the
early 1800's after his grandfather conquered the Arabian Peninsula. This group was selectively bred, ruthlessly culled
and kept intact by a strict breeding philosophy through a succession of dedicated breeders to the present. The key to
their success as breeding horses is their high degree of linebreeding and inbreeding for 150 years to create prepotency for
desirable characteristics.
This combination of quality, scarcity and genetic prepotency has created
and maintained substantial values for
Egyptian Horses.
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