Shagya Arabian

Later, Shagya Arabian breeding was also added.

Refinement comes from Thoroughbred, Shagya Arabian and Trakehner blood.

The Shagya Arabian is a considerably younger breed, related to the Purebred Arabian.

Respectively, these two sires founded the Shagya Arabian and Gidran Anglo-Arabian breeds.

This homozygous gray stallion, with a Thoroughbred sire and Shagya Arabian dam, was among the three most important German sires in the early years.

The Shagya Arabian exhibits traits similar to the asil or purebred Arabian horse, with high carried tail, sound bone and excellent endurance.

During one of those holidays, Raswan observed the young Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony, who was riding a Shagya Arabian.

The Shagya Arabian was developed in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 19th century at the Bábolna, Mezőhegyes, Radautz, Piber, and Topolcianky studs.

Other important sires for the Holsteiner breed include Almé Z, especially through his son Quidam de Revel, and Bachus Z, son of the Shagya Arabian Bajar.

This situation is seen in other breeds, such as the Shagya Arabian, which also has highly concentrated, but not 100% Arabian bloodlines, and is deemed a separate purebred breed in its own right.

On Cothran's Family Tree of Horse breeds, they fall in the Arabian group, nearest the Shagya Arabian, a horse breed from Hungary that had been imported into colonial German South-West Africa.