Hanan the story of an arabian mare and of the arabian breed

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Hanan the story of an arabian mare and of the arabian breed

Hanan the story of an arabian mare and of the arabian breed, by Hans Joachim Nagel

Hans Joachim Nagel studied as an economist but has spent all his working life in the field of animal husbandry. For nearly forty years he has been involved with the development of modern animal breeding techniques in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In the late 1950s his business took him to Babolna, the Hungarian State Stud. There he met for the first time the Arabian orse. Later he went to Egypt where he met it again at El Zahraa, the El zahraa as it was in the days of Morafic and Moniet el Nefous, when the influence of Nazeer was still in the ascendant. There he fell in love with Hanan and in 1967 bought her with Mahiba and Marah.

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Hanan the story of an arabian mare and of the arabian breed

Hanan the story of an arabian mare and of the arabian breed, by Hans Joachim Nagel

Hans Joachim Nagel studied as an economist but has spent all his working life in the field of animal husbandry. For nearly forty years he has been involved with the development of modern animal breeding techniques in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

In the late 1950s his business took him to Babolna, the Hungarian State Stud. There he met for the first time the Arabian orse. Later he went to Egypt where he met it again at El Zahraa, the El zahraa as it was in the days of Morafic and Moniet el Nefous, when the influence of Nazeer was still in the ascendant. There he fell in love with Hanan and in 1967 bought her with Mahiba and Marah.

But her pedigree was unfashionable: she did not trace back to one of the grand lines of Egyptian breeding but „only“ to a gift horse to King Fuad, Egypt. She was greeted in Germany with scorn and suspicion. Who could say what the background of the gift horse might have been?

Who could say what Hanan’s foals might look like?Thus people reasoned as Dr. Nagel started to breed from Hanan. When her first son, the stunning Jamil, was nominated among the Top Ten stallions in the USA and still the bickering continued, the question formed in Dr. Nagels’s mind: Is it necessary to have a beautiful pedigree to be a beautiful horse?

This book is the distillation of thirty years‘ experience of breeding at he highest international levels and goes to the heart of the question that is foremost for every breeder: what am I trying to achieve? It is neither exclusive nor obsessional.

It is the remarkable (some would say revolutionary) work of a man who is passionate in his beliefs but who is also practical, a man who has done these things with his own hands, a man who knows the problems. Hans Nagel was born in 1930, has been Vice President of WAHO since 1994 and President of the German Arab Horse Society for 17 years. His wife Nawal comes from Lebanon. They live in Bremen, Germany.

Illustration on front cover by Benita Bammer

published 1998, 290 pages, pictures

ISBN 0 906382 16 5