9日，中国马会秘书长岳高峰在巴林麦纳麦参加2017世界阿拉伯马协会会员代表大会，发表题为《阿拉伯马的中国故事》的主题演讲（戴诗文 摄）

 阿拉伯马的中国故事 

——在2017世界阿拉伯马协会会员代表大会上的主题演讲

（2017年2月9日，巴林）

中国马会秘书长 岳高峰

尊敬的主席，

各执行委员会成员，

各参会代表，

女士们，先生们：

我谨代表中国马业协会，向世界阿拉伯马协会的热情邀请和接待表示衷心的感谢。

我是岳高峰，是中国马业协会的秘书长。和我同行的有中国纯血马登记委员会秘书长，王振山博士；中国马会国际部部长，戴诗文女士，以及中国马会重要会员单位代表。这是我们首次参加WAHO会议，能代表中国申请并加入WAHO，我们感到非常骄傲。现在，我将向你们讲述阿拉伯马在中国的故事。

中国马业协会（简称“中国马会”），源起于1976年，2002年成立了“中国马业协会”。中国马会具有社会团体法人资格，是中国先进社会组织，是国际纯血马登记管理委员会（ISBC）成员、世界阿哈尔捷金马（汗血马）协会（IAHA）发起成员国、亚洲赛马联盟（ARF）成员。中国马会日常办事机构：秘书处、国家马属动物安全福利中心、国家马业传媒中心、违禁药物检测中心、DNA检测实验室(ISAG Number.118697)和国家种马场（筹）。

近100年来，阿拉伯马在中国留下良好的印象，是公认的优良马种。

历史上中国曾多次引入阿拉伯马。传说，伊斯兰先知穆罕穆德王的友人奥马尔，曾与妻子带领40名骑兵和阿拉伯马到达过中国新疆伊犁州。这些马与当地伊犁马配种得良驹，致使伊犁马和阿拉伯马有相似之处。

1934年9月从英国约翰霍登公司购入10匹阿拉伯马并运达上海，后饲养于江苏句容种马牧场，这是中国首次输入阿拉伯种马。有意思的是, 记录1934年有11匹阿拉伯马输入到中国，所以我们猜测，最后一匹名叫“乔治”的1岁马匹是在起运之前或运输途中生下的。

同年，广西省还从印度购入阿拉伯马公马3匹。

作为世界著名的古老马种，阿拉伯马体型结构匀称，外貌优美，适应性强，耐劳苦，抗粗饲。1937年春，为充实军用马匹，改良军马，句容种马场前往伊拉克官方采购阿拉伯种马。

这次输入种马有公马7匹，母马15匹，另有幼驹1匹。

1934年和1937年先后三次从英国、印度和伊拉克引入的阿拉伯马，养于句容马场，1937年抗日战争爆发，1938年10月迁移至贵州省清镇市，后称清镇种马场。

清镇马场占地2800公顷，机构分为农事、育马两科，附设有军马医疗所和8个民马配种站。纯种繁殖阿拉伯马的同时，用之改良蒙古马及西南马。虽经历种种困难，但阿拉伯马保种还在继续。1949年清镇种马场改为军马场，繁育改良马匹达到700余匹，至今，中国西南地区仍有含阿拉伯马血液的杂种马后裔。

1993年，日本友人（石川良并先生），赠送给当时中国全国人大副委员长6匹阿拉伯马。2匹公马，4匹母马。

1995年，石川良并先生再次赠送12匹阿拉伯马，6 匹公马，6匹母马。以上18匹马均来自美国肯塔基州，同时，这些阿拉伯种公马还用于改良中国的山丹马和伊犁马，取得了一定的成效。至此，中国已具有中等规模的优质阿拉伯马群。

2015年5月，吉尔吉斯总统赠给中国国家主席习近平一匹阿拉伯公马，该马于2006年出生，青色，名字叫达姆沙皇（CZAR DAM，2006，ARABIAN）。其父亲是：POGANIN，ARABIAN。其母亲是CONTRA。这匹国礼马继承了其祖先的优良基因，能够提高未来在中国阿拉伯马繁育的水平。

2016年1月30日，中国马会邀请美国阿拉伯马协会AHA代表团在北京举办了“阿拉伯马专题讲座”，两位美国专家Deborah Fuentes女士和Jeffrey Wintersteen先生介绍了阿拉伯马的历史，起源、发展、血系与登记注册等专业内容。同时，Deborah Fuentes女士提出建议，希望中国马会申请加入WAHO，在此，我想向Jeff 和Debbie表达我们的感谢，感谢他们的帮助，并不辞辛苦地为中国马主讲解阿拉伯马相关专业知识。2016年3月，中国马会收到了WAHO大会的邀请函。

综上，在近百年的时间里，阿拉伯马匹一直不间断地从不同的国家进口到中国，目前，在中国有超过200匹阿拉伯马，均持有世界阿拉伯马协会认证的血统证书或其直系后代。接下来，我们的首要工作是在WAHO与全球同仁的帮助下，尽快完成在中国的每匹阿拉伯马的登记认证工作。

总之，中国拥有五千年灿烂的马文化历史，在960万平方公里的国土上驰骋着600万匹骏马；目前，全中国有1000多家各类马场，有超过1000万的忠实爱马者。作为世界第二大经济体和14亿人口的大国，中国马业得到了政府，市场与社会的高度关注，其发展日新月异，举世瞩目。我们坚信，阿拉伯马的优秀基因和文化一定会在中国得到更好地繁衍与传播，我们也一定会为世界阿拉伯马事业的繁荣贡献特别的力量！

最后祝大家身体健康，永远幸福。欢迎你们到中国、到中国马会。

谢谢大家。

The Story of Arabian Horses in China 

Dear Mr. President, members of the Executive Committee, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. 

On behalf of China Horse Industry Association, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to World Arabian Horse Organization for their warm welcome.  My name is Gaofeng Yue and I am the Secretary-General. I come here with: Dr Zhenshan Wang, the Secretary-General of China Stud Book Committee; Miss Rebecca Dai, the Director of international affairs of CHIA; and some important representatives of CHIA group members.  This is our first time at a WAHO Conference and we are proud of being here, representing China as the newest Member of the international WAHO family.  I would now like to give you some background history and stories about the Arabian horse in China.

The history of the China Horse Industry Association (also called CHIA) can be traced back to 1976. In 2002, the Association was founded. As one of the advanced social organizations of China, CHIA has an independent legislative status. Besides being a full member of the International Stud Book Committee (ISBC) and the Asian Racing Federation (ARF), it is also one of the founders of the International Akhal-Teke Horse Association (IAHA).In terms of its executive branches, CHIA is composed of the Secretariat, National Center of Equine Safety and Welfare, China Horse Industry Media, Drug Test Center, DNA Testing and Research Laboratory (ISAG Number.118697), and National Stud Farm.

For the recent 10 decades, generally acclaimed as an excellent breed, the Arabian horse has made very good impression on Chinese horse owners.

Historically, the Arabian horse has been introduced into China for many times. According to legend, the prophet Mohammed’s friend Ormar, leading his wife and a group of forty horsemen riding Arabian horses, arrived in Yili region of Xinjiang, China. After receiving the blood of these Arabian horses, the Yili horse as a breed was improved greatly, that's why the two breeds share some common features.

In September 1934, the ten Arabian horses imported from the British company called John Holden Co. Ltd were soon kept in Jurong stud farm after their arrival in Shanghai. This was the first time for Arabian horses importation. It is interesting that a total of eleven Arabian horses, instead of ten, were imported according to the record, we thus surmise that the one-year-old colt named “George” was most likely born shortly before or during the transport.

In the same year, the Guangxi province also imported three Arabian stallions from India. 

As one of the ancient breeds, the Arabian horse has good conformation, elegant and beautiful, it has strong adaptability to environment, hardy and easy to keep. In the spring of 1937, in order to improve the performance of military horses, delegates from Jurong stud farm, China went to Iraq to officially buy Arabian horses. 

A total of 23 Arabian horses, including seven stallions, fifteen mares, and one foal were imported in China in 1937.

The Arabian horses imported in both 1934 and 1937 from UK, India and Iraq were kept in Jurong stud farm. However, due to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the stud farm was moved to Qing Zhen county of Guizhou province in October of 1938, then called Qing Zhen stud farm.

With an area of 2,800 hectares, Qing Zhen stud farm consists of two departments (one responsible for agriculture, the other for horse breeding), one equine hospital for military mounts, and eight breeding stations. Besides breeding Arabian horses, the farm also made efforts to improve the Mongolian horses and the local breeds in Southwest of China. By overcoming all kinds of difficulties, the farm is still undertaking the breeding of Arabian horses today. Since 1949, Qing Zhen stud farm was transformed into a military one.  The number of Arabian horses bred and improved there once reached 700. Now, there are still progenies of Arabian horse crossbreed in the southwest area of China.

In 1993, a Japanese friend (Mr. Ishikawa Ryonami), presented six Arabian horses as gifts – two stallions and four mares – to the vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. 

In 1995, Mr. Ishikawa again sent twelve Arabian horses, six stallions and six mares. All above 18 horses were born in Kentucky, USA. At the same time, the stallions were also used to improve local breed such as Shandan and Yili horses, which made some achievements. As a result, the purebred Arabian stock was elevated to a considerable number.

In May 2015, the President of Kyrgyzstan presented a gray Arabian stallion named Czar Dam to President Xi Jinping.  Czar Dam was born in Poland, by Poganin out of Contra.  It is believed that this national gift horse has many excellent qualities, inherited from his well-known ancestors, will enhance the standard of Arabians breeding in China in the future.

The Arabian Horse Association of America was invited by CHIA to hold a symposium on Arabian horses in Beijing on January 30, 2016. Two American experts, Mrs. Deborah Fuentes and Mr. Jeffrey Wintersteen gave the reports about history, origin, development, bloodlines and registration of Arabian horses. At that time, Debbie Fuentes suggested CHIA to join WAHO; and we would like to take this opportunity to thank both Debbie and Jeff for all their assistance and for so generously making great efforts to educate our owners and breeders. In March 2016, CHIA received conference invitation from WAHO. 

In all, in the last ten decades, many Arabian horses have been imported from different countries into China. Today, we estimate that China has a stock of over 200 living Arabian horses, all of them either imported from WAHO approved studbooks, or their direct progeny. CHIA will from now on maintain the registry and studbooks, and popularization for Arabian horses in China.  Our first task will be to locate, re-identify and register every living Arabian in our country for inclusion in our first Arabian Stud Book of China which, with the help of WAHO and of our Registrar colleagues around the world.

China has a splendid horse culture of 5,000 years. Today, nearly 6 million horses still live in this country with its area of 9 million and 600 thousand square kilometers. As the world's second largest economy with a population of 1.4 billion, China has more than 1,000 equestrian clubs, stud farms and racetracks included across the country with over 10 million faithful horse lovers. As a result, the horse industry in China has won unanimous support of the government, market as well as the public, and its rapid development has attracted the attention all over the world. We strongly believe that the excellent genes and culture of the Arabian horses will be preserved and spread in China, thus making our special contributions to the prosperity of this noble breed.

At last, I wish all of you enjoy a good health and be happy forever. Welcome to China and welcome to CHIA.  Thank you for your attention.