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	barbed - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Barbed Wire, strands of wire twisted together with sharp barbs occurring at regular intervals, used for fencing and barriers.
		Barb (horse), once known as the Barbary, breed of horse native to Northwest Africa.
		One of the oldest horse breeds, the Barb is second only to the...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /barbed.html (119 words)

	Spanish Mustangs
		These horses were not Arabians, for the Arabian, although it too derives from the Afro-Turkic subspecies, is exclusively the product of Bedouin taste and cultural values which came into being only after their conversion to Islam in the 7th century of the current era.
		The Barb by contrast retains from its Iberian ancestors the rounded haunches, sloping croup, and low tail-set of a horse built not as the Arabian is to race over flat ground, but to coil and spring.
		The Arabs excelled at raiding and their horses are bred for this style of warfare: quickly swooping down upon the enemy, shooting with bow and arrow or (later) the rifle, or throwing the light lance and then racing away in retreat.
	www.frankhopkins.com /mustangsA.html (1317 words)

	breed
		Other distinctive characteristics of the Spanish Barb War Horse are a lean head structure with a convex face profile; flat muscling throughout; long legs that are free of feathering and fetlock hair; a rather narrow build as viewed from the front; and very hard, upright hooves.
		The Spanish horse has a convex head; the Arabian concave; the Spanish horse's croup is very rounded with a low tail set; the Arabian's croup is horizontal (straight lines) with a high tail set.
		During this accelerated development of the Spanish War Horse in Spain, the exchange of horses between Spain and North Africa was so frequent and complete that the North African Barb and the Spanish War Horse were considered one and the same.
	www.angelfire.com /ky/WarHorse/breed.html (866 words)

	Huenenberger's Fantasia Pages: Barb Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Barb Horse, originally bred in Northern Africa, is the ancestor of many famous breeds, as e.g.
		Barb Horses, imported to Europe, have frequently been (wrongly) taken for arabian horses by Europeans, because most inhabitants of Northern Africa were muslims and spoke the arabic language.
		The number of pure Barb Horses is decreasing, due to the economic situation in its original countries.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/3240/barb.htm (335 words)

	Horse Directory Australia \| Barb Horse \| Horses of the World \|
		Barb Horses originated on the coastal areas of North Africa in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, formerly known as Barbary Coast which gave the breed its name.
		One theory suggests that the Barb Horse is related to the Akhal-Teke the horse of the Turkmen.
		King Henry III imported Barb Horses into England in the 16th century and during the 17th century the breed had a significant influence in the development of the Thoroughbred.
	www.horsedirectory.com.au /horseresources/horsesofworld/Barb.html (284 words)

	Equine Kingdom - Barb
		The Barb tends to have a muscular neck that curves gently from prominent withers to the poll.
		Barbs today are still very much in evidence in North Africa, especially in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, and are often clothed in decorative tack with semiprecious jewels as a demonstration of the owner's wealth.
		Barbs were introduced to Spain during the Moorish invasions and influenced the Andalusian and Spanish horse.
	www.equinekingdom.com /breeds/light_horses/barb.htm (749 words)

	Esi Knowledge Base - True Collection
		These are the horses that the emissaries of Solomon and the seamen-traders of Phoenicia and the Greek islands loaded into their boats and brought to Iberia and the British Isles (drawings by the author).
		It is important to understand and appreciate the Barb horse, because as history drew down to the 7th century of our era, an event of the greatest significance occurred: the angel Gabriel appeared to Mohammed in a cave in Mecca, and made of him a most persuasive prophet.
		They brought few horses into this region, partly because of the barriers posed by the Sinai and the Nile, but largely in fact because the region was already full of horses apt to their purposes.
	www.equinestudies.org /knowledge_base/origin.html (4344 words)

	The Barb Horse - Breed
		The Barb is somewhat taller build than the desert Arabian, on longer legs and measures on the average 150 cm (close to 15 hands) in the withers.
		It is quite obvious, considering the characteristics in the shape of the head that the Barb’s blood is mixed with the western horse.
		The barb was a military horse of known endurance and that is why the military offices in those countries supported his breed.
	horsecare.stablemade.com /_articles/barb.htm (527 words)

	Breeds of Horses - Horse Breeds - Horses for Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although the Barb horse origins are not completely known it is thought that wild horses, the Arabian horse and the Akhal Teke horse breeds influenced the evolution of the Barb horse.
		The horse is known to have had considerable influence on the American Mustang, the Thoroughbred and the Argentinean Criollo horse breeds.
		The Barb horse stands 14.2 and 15.2hh and is predominantly gray, bay, brown and fl.
	www.horseforsale.ca /breeds/barb.cfm (212 words)

	Barb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An alternate spelling of barding, a type of armor for horses.
		Barbs, the branches issuing from the rachis of feathers.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barb (175 words)

	Official Site: Spanish-Norman Horse Registry, Inc. - The Noble Warhorse Returns
		Europeans were faced with a horse unsurpassed in combat; hardy, courageous, powerful, quick to respond to the rider's commands with an uncanny ability to engage its hind end and strike out in all directions.
		Barbs of North Africa and the indigenous horses of the
		Spanish-Norman is a horse of substance: short coupled, strong hindquarters, sloping shoulder, ample heart girth, broad chest, medium length of neck, with its head showing a slightly convex to straight profile.
	www.spanish-norman.com /noblewarhorse.htm (1171 words)

	SBBA: The Spanish Barb - History and Origin
		The agile desert bred African Barb horse was crossed with existing Spanish stock resulting in a horse that became world famous by the Middle Ages and was much sought after by the Royal Stud farms of Europe.
		The Spanish horses later raised on the vast lands granted to missions and ranches populated the entire western area of North America and furnished most of the broodmares for the imported English stallions of the eastern colonists.
		The agile desert bred African Barb horse was crossed with the existing Spanish stock that already had received an infusion of Barb blood during the earlier rule of Carthage.
	www.spanishbarb.com /the_spanish_barb/body.htm (1707 words)

	Barb Breeds Equestrian Sports
		Barb Johnstone from Erskine had previously adopted a cat at the shelter and said...
		The World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds states, "The Barb is a light riding horse which originated in the Maghreb region of northern Africa.
		McKay purchased the Ohio-bred horse from Barb Holbrook as an afterthought.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Sports/Equestrian/Breeds/Barb (290 words)

	Barb. North African Barb. Moors, Sorraia.
		The difference between between this author's account of the Barb and several others which exist indicating a contrary conclusion, is simply that many recorders omit the foundation period and only start their research at the time of the Moorish Conquest of Spain when indeed fresh Barb blood was brought into the Peninsula.
		Today, the Barb horse displays so many Iberian features that we are left in no doubt that the strong genetic dominance of Sorraia blood became fixed within the breed at its most formative time.
		During the Barb's evolution, in the same way that Iberian horses developed, other breeds came from the east and the oriental blood of the Libyan horse in particular heightened and refined the original primitive horses.
	www.sorraias.com /Barb.htm (451 words)

	Natural horsemanship, horsemanship, horse tack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Barb Apple can bring you back to that place where you and your horse look forward to being with each other, where riding means playtime, and you get more from your horse than you ever thought possible...
		Barb teaches with the “Systems” of natural horsemanship as a guideline rather than a curriculum and has long said “the horse will determine the lesson plan for the student”.
		Barb’s instruction of horse and rider begins a transformation that is the beauty of natural horsemanship.
	www.barbapple-horseplay.net (412 words)

	Mechanical Observation of the Peruvian Horse
		The Peruvian horse derived its gait principally from the Barb.
		The North African Barb horse was brought to Spain in the 12th century and mixed with horses in Spain.
		The Spanish Jennet is the horse brought to Peru by the conquistadors in 1536.
	www.horseshoes.com /anatomy/esad/articles/mechanicalobservationoftheperuvianhorse/mechanicalobservationoftheperuvianhorse.htm (2435 words)

	Vacation from Hell
		The horses were stalled in rough fences carved from the timber of the land.
		Barb, at this point was starting to look askance at our plans, but I assured her it was going to be great fun.
		Barb had been on top with her horse going crazy wanting to be with the other animals and heard our hollering and could only wonder about what was transpiring.
	www.videoexplorers.com /vacation1.htm (1884 words)

	Trote y Troche Horses
		It is a horse with a temperament and brio very similar to the Barb horse but with completely diagonal movements defined by great polish and noticeable smoothness for the horseman.
		Its presence in our horse is relatively new, if we analyze its genetic origin, even though it was produced in the paso fino horse in the Andean region as a secondary air with a reduced rhythm used for rest, and the trainer, with a fixed beat and cadence, demanded it of the horse.
		The horse had to modify his stride in order to move his limbs with less speed, changing the lateral biped of the paso to the diagonal biped of the trocha.
	www.caribepasofinos.com /trote.htm (3267 words)

	Spanish Barb Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Spanish Barb was nearly cross-bred and abandoned to the point of extinction around the turn of the 20th century.
		The Wilbur-Cruce Mission Horse, the Colonial Spanish Horse and the Spanish Barb are all names that refer to the horse descended from those brought to the Americas by the Spaniards in the days of colonization, in 1493.
		She is the winningest horse in the history of the Registry and is know as the "grand dame" of performance.
	www.imh.org /imh/bw/sbarb.html (1531 words)

	American Indian Horse
		The Spanish Barb Breeders Association, is dedicated to the preservation, perpetuation and promotion of the Spanish Barb Horse.
		The Barb Horse of Colonial Spain was exceptional because it was coveted and sought after to improve other breeds throughout Europe.
		The Florida Cracker Horse Association was organized in 1989, with its first task of the search for the remnants herds of Cracker Horses.
	www.redoaktree.org /indianhorse/breeds.htm (562 words)

	Barb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Barb influenced many breeds and when the Muslim armies invaded Spain in the 8th century, the Barb blood enhanced the Spanish Horse, which is now known as the Andalusian.
		The Barb also enhanced Ireland’s Connemara, the famous white horses of the Camargue, and also some of the Mustang breeds.The Modern Barb is the traditional mount of the Spahi cavalry and is still plentiful in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.
		The Barb usually stands between 14.2 and 15.2 hh and are not the most beautiful horse but are known for their toughness, stamina, and for being somewhat temperamental.
	www.terrific-horses.com /breeds/barb.asp (288 words)

	Spanish-Norman Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As Islamic forces advanced into Spain and France from North Africa on their Barb horses, Europeans were faced with a horse unsurpassed in combat: hardy, courageous, powerful, quick to respond to the rider's commands, with an uncanny ability to engage its hind end and strike out in any direction.
		Both the Barbs of North Africa and the indigenous horses of the Iberian Peninsula carried Oriental blood and were of a very similar genetic strain.
		Both the horses of Andalusia and Normandy possessed an infusion of Barb blood from the Moorish invasions.
	www.imh.org /imh/bw/spanor.html (1351 words)

	Zamyhorse.com - Quality Paso, Trote y Galope Horses
		The Spanish horses were Andalusian, horses that derive from the cross breeding of the SorAria (also called Peninsular), Arabian and Barb horses.
		We cannot forget that the Barb breed is the second founding breed after the Arabian, and many researchers even say that there is no evidence that verifies the origins of the Barb and that it is as old as the Arabian.
		The World Organization of the Barb Horse (WOBH) was founded in Algeria in 1987 and in 1990 it almost disappeared for lack of members and quality of their horses.
	www.zamyhorse.com /troteygalope.htm (719 words)

	Barb, Arabian horse equine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Barb is second only to the Arabian as one of the founding breeds of the world's horse population.
		It is speculated that it may have constituted a group of wild horses that escaped the effects of the Ice Age.
		Not an impressive horse, the Barb has a sloping quarter, a low-set tail, and a plain head with a skull formation verging on that of the primitive horse types.
	equineestates.com /library/breeds/b001.htm (248 words)

	Horse Breeds A-B
		Ancestory: The Appaloosa descends from the Andalusian to the Arabian to the Barb to the Turk.
		Ancestory: The Australlian Stock Horse descends from the Arab to the Spanish to the Toroughbred.
		Ancestory: The Belgian Heavy Draft is from the Flanders Horse.
	www.angelfire.com /anime3/horseloversonly/Breedsab.html (603 words)

	IALHA - International Andalusian & Lusitano Horse Association
		That the Barb and the Andalusian horse are related either by ancient connection or by mixing during the occupation of the Iberian Peninsula is evident.
		It is entirely possible that the Barb horse is an ancient admixture of the Iberian horse and the Arab horse as it is geographically found between the cradles of origin of these two breeds.
		The Andalusian horse has little in common with the Arabian Horse other than the fact that both are hot blooded horses and both have contributed extensively to the development of most other modern horse breeds.
	www.ialha.org /new/about_breed/andahistory2.php (654 words)

	Meet the American Indian Horse
		The Indian Horse's loyalty is legend as is their toughness and intelligence, and anyone fortunate enough to share their lives with one knows how truly special they are.
		Horses being inspected for "AA" registration must be at least 4 years of age or older.
		At the request of the owner, horses with a strong Spanish appearance and no known pedigree such as Bureau of Land Management Adoptees and other "found" horses may be inspected by AIHR officials once the horse reaches age 4.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/alabama/1446 (2146 words)

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		After showing horses for over twenty years and becoming frustrated with not finding horse sleazys, horse mane tamers, horse slinkies or horse hoods that would properly fit our show horses, we decided to design our own horse hoods that would have all the features we needed and wanted.
		horse hoods, horse mane tamers, horse slickers, horse hoodies, etc.) and lycra stretch sheets for special equine of all sizes.
		All horse clothing and horse hoods are made from the finest quality materials available from American manufacturers and have been chosen for their durability and impressive look.
	www.sleezybarbhorsewear.com (607 words)

	Registry
		To register a horse from registered Barb parents the following must be submitted: colored pictures (front, back, and both sides showing all four legs, plus a full-facial close-up clearly showing the forehead whorl), registration number of sire and dam, birthdate of offspring, drawings of any markings not clearly shown on photographs.
		The Society is for the purpose of promoting and using the Barb horse.
		Any inquiries for horses sent in to the Society or Registry will be referred to any member who have horses for sale, if the member provides self addressed, stamped envelopes, for said referrals.
	www.originalhorses.org /registry.html (290 words)

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