Fifty years. That’s half a century. Am I really that old? It doesn’t feel like it …
On the other hand, there is no denying that the world is very different now from what it was when I first encountered Arabian horses. So is the Arabian horse itself, and almost everything around it.
A few years ago, I already wrote in detail about that first, life-changing encounter with Arabian horses at the Ismer Stud, so I won’t repeat any of that here. Let us look at the larger picture instead.
In the fall of 1971, I was still a high school kid and Arabians were few and far between. If you counted the number of private stud farms in Germany using
