Badraig is a board member of the Federation and feels it is now his duty to try to reintroduce the horse to people in general, not just to those who are already involved with them. Then Crown Prince Abdullah made it one of his goals to reverse the trend and so formed the Saudi Arabian Equestrian federation. The well-being of the Arabian horse is one of his great passions and continuing interests.Ī couple of decades ago the number of pure Arabian horses in the Kingdom decreased alarmingly. From his youth, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has been - and remains - a fine equestrian.
YIN AND YANG SYMBOL USING ARABIAN HORSES TRIAL
“They are a wonderful way to connect with Arab culture.” Badraig’s superb string of 33 Arabians was the basis of a guided discussion, presentation of the breed and its history and a trial run for future visits by organized groups of children and adults.īadraig grew up with horses - but, when in his 20s, he got to know Prince Faisal ibn Abdullah ibn Mohammed Al-Saud, the prince’s love and knowledge of the Arab horse, Badraig describes as ‘infectious’ and he never looked back. “Quite apart from the beauty of the horse and the relationship that people seem to develop with them when they meet them, they are quite literally living history” he said. In an effort to reconnect the current generation with the history, romance and singular contribution to Arab culture made by the distinctive Arab horse, Ahmed Badraig invited members of the Saudi Natural History Society to what he hopes will be the first of many open days at his Al-Ward Arabian Horse Stud near Jeddah. Once high profile in the social landscape of nomadic tribes in the Fertile Crescent, the horse has become far less a part of daily life but is nonetheless nurtured and loved in stables throughout the Kingdom.
The preoccupation with the horse is a thread traceable through the fabric of Arab society for five millennia. ACCORDING to ancient legend, the Arabian horse was born of a handful of the south wind and virtue is bound into the hair of its forelock, its master is its friend and he has been given the power of flight without wings.
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