@clubpenguinfishfr

1 month ago

Hi Raleigh,

I have access to the Arabian Horse Datasource, which is the encyclopedia for purebred arabians, half arabians, and anglo arabians. People are saying Lalo’s registered name is “Focus Apollo”. There is no horse under the purebred index or half/anglo index. His presumed sire, Focus Valentino, and his presumed dam, Focus Khatarina, are indeed on datasource. You can click on progeny for these two horses, neither of them have Focus Apollo. Khatarina has only one offspring listed, a grey stallion, and Valentino has one offspring listed, a chestnut mare.

If Lalo is “Focus Apollo”, he’s not even registered, which is actually BETTER in your scenario. A lot of people care about pedigrees when it comes to adopting an arabian, if a horse doesn’t have its papers, or is even simply not registered at all, the demand for that horse unfortunately declines. For Lalo, he doesn’t even have an official pedigree from Arabian Horse Association. Yes, it is still possible to get Lalo’s registered, but you will need to get in contact with the dam’s owner at time of breeding and owner at time of foaling, as well as the recorded owner of sire at time of breeding. Even with horses on Datasource, it is EXTREMELY difficult to get into contact with previous owners to transfer over registration. In the arabian community, many don’t consider an arabian truly owned by someone until it is transferred over on Datasource. Even worse, if you sell your arabian horse to someone else, and that horse ends up in a kill pen, etc., people will look up that horse on datasource, trace it back to you, and it’ll make you look bad.

Also, All Breed Pedigree is a nice site considering it costs money to access datasource, but it’s mostly user moderated and maintained. I could make up some horse and claim it as an offspring of Lalo if I wanted to. I’m not saying Lalo’s entry on that website isn’t genuine, just more so it’s better off checking with AHA on this.

If you want to go ahead and register him or see if he is registered somewhere under a different name, you will need to contact AHA and send in hair samples. It may be difficult to get him registered without all the information or try to transfer his ownership over in datasource. For me, I wouldn’t worry too much. Lalo is yours and is being loved, and that’s all that matters.

Also, wanted to add. I live in Colorado and go to arabian horse events in Colorado. Membership (as a whole across the country) is on a decline, and so is registration. Part of the blame has to do with the outside perspective of assuming all Arabians are scrunched up and extremely dished, which of course, is not true. My relative owns many arabians, and some of them barely have a dish and are STRAIGHT EGYPTIAN. I used to be someone who would found arabian horses hideous and scary since I thought they all looked like short faced seahorses. When I first saw my relative’s horses many years ago, I fell in love with the breed. Not because of their face, but because of their loyalty. Arabians are the most versatile and loyal breed out there. When one bonds with an arabian, that is a friend for life.

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