Al Khamsa 2007 National Convention

Paso Robles, California - October 12-14, 2007
Convention Report
Upcoming Events
June 1-7:
Al Khamsa will once again have a booth and cookies at the Pyramid Society Egyptian Event at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Volunteers are welcome! Contact Pam Studebaker for further details.
June 6-8:
Johnny Johnston, famed Arabian horse photographer, will be coming to Culpeper, Virginia. He is giving a seminar called the "Mind of the Horse" and will be doing portrait photographs at the Virginia Arabian Horse Association show. While he is on the East Coast he will be available for private farm shoots. For further information visit www.johnnyjohnstonphotos.com or contact Karen Aneiro for details.
August 29-30: The Asil Cup International 2008 will be held at Schloss Wocklum near Balve, Germany. Contact the Asil Club or Diana and Dipl. Sportwiss. Markus Metzler for further details.
October 22-26:
Al Khamsa 2008 National Convention and Annual Meeting in conjunction with the U.S. Arabian National in Tulsa Oklahoma! Please contact the 2008 Al Khamsa Convention Chair, Ellen May, to offer your ideas, resources or assistance.
About Al Khamsa
Mission Statement

Al Khamsa, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the preservation of the horse of Bedouin Arabia, as recognized by Al Khamsa, through education and research in a non-competitive social climate which draws admirers of such horses together with the interest of fitting the Bedouin horse into western life. Our work is to study, document, research, find out as much as we can about the Arabian Horse of Bedouin origin as it exists today and then to share this information with others through our various publications, and through our magazine.

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Khamsat Articles
Al Khamsa Arabians: Their Tribal Sources by Carol Lyons

Al Khamsa Arabians are defined as those horses in North America that can reasonable be assumed to descend entirely from asil bedouin Arabian horses bred by the horse-breeding bedouin tribes of the deserts of the Arabian peninsula, without admixture from sources unacceptable to Al Khamsa. It is this definition which sets Al Khamsa Arabians apart from all others and which make these horses a cohesive group, even though there are individual modern breeding programs.

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