Crabbet Australia

Welcome to the Site which is promoting the Versatile Australasian Arabian 

Living a horse's life in open paddocks.

Glendu Station Arabians - Victoria (Photo L Start)

Sun Spell

2 yr old Pure Crabbet Filly

owned and bred by Rachel Morrsink

Shown by Anthony Geyteman

Sun Spell has been out in open company winning as she goes. 

Champion Filly in Open and Crabbet Company at the

recent NSW Crabbet Show 2009 

Pure Crabbet 2 yr old colt

Al Tsahir Firebird

bred and owned by Belinda Williams

leased and managed  by Ivahri Arabians

Shown by Anthony Geyteman - Vision Show Training

at his first show = NSW Crabbet Show

Champion Open and Pure Crabbet Colt.

Both horses wll be at the Nationals in NSW.

Photos by R & J Cerveny

The Australian Arabian and closely followed by the New Zealand Arabian which are based on the Arabian Horses who have formed togethor via the work of many studs, breeders and owners over decades.  Through the 19th and early part of the 20th century when the major number of Arabians had been brought to Australia and New Zealand.  Through the work of various people who had the foresight to bring the wonderful equine breed to these shores for the betterment of the equine population.

The Arabian Horse had played an important part in not only breeding Purebred Arabians but also adding the Arabian blood to other horse breeding groups such as the Australian Stockhorse.  The Arabian has been used to breed Anglo Arabians,  Arabian Warmbloods, (a great example of Anglo breeding and the use of this breeding/Arabian Blood in the Trakehner Breeders Assoc. of NZ now is Alexanderschante AS (Exp. NZ) of Aslaan Perforrmance Horses- (see the stud profile).  Also in pony breeding.  The use of Arabian horse blood was also widely carried out on stations and farms across Australia to breed tough, athletic horses for various uses.

There are so many possibilities for the use of Arabian blood to add, strength, endurance and many other attributes for performance horses. 

Arabian horses are capable of anything with the  owner/trainer and training that works with the horse not against it. 

Be it a horse for:

 a young rider

          Whyneemah  Arabians  

a family

a dressage horse

              Khadi         

an Anglo performance horse and sire accepted to other Breeding Associations like the Trakehber Breeders Assoc. of NZ (TBAZ)

an Endurance horse 

                                Ivahri Gold and Silver  owned by L Hogan (photo Keiron Power)

a Breeding Sire

Alwaha Arabians                               

a Western Horse

 Alwaha Arabians                  

 partbred or derivative arabians of all colours

Calga Arabians and Appaloosas (above and below)

or a world Champion see below

Ralvon Pilgrim above

These horses are all Arabian bred with predominately Crabbet breeding.  Crabbet and GSB registered Arabians made up the majority of Arabians who came to Australia and New Zealand which formed the basis of the Australian Arabian along with the New Zealand Arabian for many decades up until the very late 1970's.  When another influx of imports came to Australia from the USA as well as other countries.  We had a small taste of Polish through Cyrasa (imp) who was part of the Dept. of Agriculture Stud.   Egyptian blood, Polish blood, Russian blood.  All this added to the gene pool in the next generation of the Australian Arabian.

Please check out the site, visit the studs via website or contact them via the information on our links and stud profile pages.  All members are more than willing to assist you and if they cannot will assist in connecting you with another stud or breeder who may.    By networking and working in a Co-Operative to promote through advertising such as the Down Under Arabians co-op.

We hope to provide various stud profiles, history information and also interesting pieces from people about the Arabian horse.  Plus also about the horses and people who make up the Arabian Horse in Australia and New Zealand.

An  Aussie Arabian Stallion

and his rider,out in the Australian Bush in Aussie Style,

Australian Stock saddle and Akubra.

Riding as one through the  perfumed air of 

Summer in the Bush.

From the yahoo groups of CrabbetAustralia and HorseArabian it has become clear that there is a need for a group of Arabian breeders and owners to make available the ability for people to learn about the Arabian Horses of Australia that many are not aware of for many reasons.

Below are the two yahoo links:

Click to join CrabbetAustralia

Click to join HorseArabian

Our groups has members who breed Arabian Horses that are from various groups such as Pure Crabbet, High % Crabbet, Crabbet Related, GSB, Colonial/College Bred, Russian, Egyptian Polish and also blends of these groups.  Most important of all is that they are all Aussie bred Arabian Horses.

We provide the link to the Ozcrabbet % reference that Richard Cerveny produced and is updating on a regular basis, so that people can learn about the Crabbet Arabian and what percentage of Crabbet blood is in their own horses.

     Talisman Rose Bahri               

Silver Moonlight imp by Fenwick his influence in Australian breeding is still very continuing.

22Ibn Galalv (imp Hungary)

                                                           Hadban Enzahi

                                                     via his sons and daughter

                                                        imported to Australia

                                                                            Rikash

  Arabian Park Phaeton