The Arabian Horse, bred in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, is one of the oldest horse breeds in the world. With its high tail, silky mane, and solid coat color, the Arabian Horse is also the most beautiful. There are more interesting facts about the Arabian Horse inside this book. Open it and get to know the horse that is famous for its “floating trot.”

How did animal breeding emerge as a movement? Who took part and for what reasons? How do the pedigree and market systems work? What light might the movement shed on the assumptions behind human eugenics? In Bred for Perfection, Margaret Derry provides the most comprehensive and accessible book yet published on the human quest to improve and develop livestock. Derry, herself a breeder and trained historian of science, explores the "triangle" of genetics, eugenics, and practical breeding, focusing on Shorthorn cattle, show dogs and working dogs, and one type of purebred horse, the Arabian. By examining specific breeders and the animals they produced, she illuminates the role of technology, genetics, culture, and economics in the system of purebred breeding. Bred for Perfection also provides the historical context in which this system arose, adding to our understanding of how domestication works and how our welfare—since the dawn of time—has been intertwined with the lives of animals.

The Meaning of Horses: Biosocial Encounters examines some of the engagements or entanglements that link the lived experiences of human and non-human animals. The contributors discuss horse-human relationships in multiple contexts, times and places, highlighting variations in the meaning of horses as well as universals of ‘horsiness’. They consider how horses are unlike other animals, and cover topics such as commodification, identity, communication and performance. This collection emphasises the agency of the horse and a need to move beyond anthropocentric studies, with a theoretical approach that features naturecultures, co-being and biosocial encounters as interactive forms of becoming. Rooted in anthropology and multispecies ethnography, this book introduces new questions and areas for consideration in the field of animals and society.

In 1967, Scottsdale's longtime Arabian horse breeder Ed Tweed embarked on a mission to race the horses he bred. He imported a chestnut stallion from Poland named Orzel, or "Eagle" in English, that flew past competitors to become the first U.S. National Racing Champion. Among other wins in halter and performance, Orzel was the victor in the debut of the U.S. National Championship Ladies' Sidesaddle category, partnered with Tweed's granddaughter Shelley Groom Trevor. Thousands of fans visited the legendary performer in retirement at Brusally Ranch. Decades after Orzel's death, horses he sired continue his winning legacy. Author Tobi Lopez Taylor chronicles this triumphant story.

Abigail was an Arabian horse breeder known for being able to choose future champions for her clients. People from all over the world sought her out. She had business success, influence, and many friends. But were they her real friends, or did were they get close to her for sinister reasons? The deeper she went into the world of horse shows, the more she learned about lust for fame and glory and the pursuit of it at any cost. She was a woman who never remained silent in the face of injustice and wrongdoing, but she soon learned that there was a price to pay for her virtue. Out of nowhere, she met her Middle Eastern paramour. Abigail was a Christian; Abdul was a Muslim. He was a man that shared her love for horses and saw through the evil intentions of those that would use her. He protected her and stood with her against the twisted intentions of those around her. She grew to trust him more than life itself. Inspired by true events, The Journey of the Christian Woman and the Muslim Man is an emotionally wrenching story of love and trust lost in savage betrayal.

Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species' usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. Margaret E. Derry shows how horse breeding practices used during this period to heighten the value of the animals in the marketplace incorporated a intriguing cross section of influences, including Mendelism, eugenics, and Darwinism. Derry elucidates the increasingly complex horse world by looking at the international trade in army horses, the regulations put in place by different countries to enforce better horse breeding, and general aspects of the dynamics of the horse market. Because it is a story of how certain groups attempted to control the market for horses, by protecting their breeding activities or 'patenting' their work, Horses in Society provides valuable background information to the rapidly developing present-day problem of biological ownership. Derry's fascinating study is also a story of the evolution of animal medicine and humanitarian movements, and of international relations, particularly between Canada and the United States.

Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret E. Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries. Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation. Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole. It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding as seen through pedigrees. In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize our interactions with all-natural processes.

Wedgfire's Song is a rare and intimate look into the hearts of two soul mates. Written in a unique style to include the perspectives of both a horse and its human, it offers readers an opportunity to accompany Fire and Krissi as they review the highpoints and low points of two lives entwined. Even though each one sees the same events from different perspectives (one horse, one human), they always seem to grow more and more together, in both love and commitment, from each shared encounter. This book will resonate with readers who have loved a pet so well they could hardly tell where they ended and the beloved pet began. The resounding truth of Wedgfires Song is "There is no beginning and no end."