Bonnie L. Hendricks, Author of the “International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds”, has introduced the Dareshuri horse as a breed near extinction.
“This breed was made famous by the leaders of the Dareshuri, namely Ziad Khan and Hossein Khan. Toward the end of the 1970s, Ayaz Khan was also important to the Dareshuri. At one time there was interest in propagating and classifying this breed. Claiming Mongolian descent, the Dareshuri people descended from a tribe that passed through Iran to Syria at the time of Genghis Khan, later returning to Iran.”
She continues to describe the Dareshuri horse and compares it as below to the Persian Arab or Asil Arabian horse:
“In appearance, the Dareshuri has a good Asil croup and tail and is higher in the leg and shorter in the body than the Khuzestan Asil. The main difference is in the head, where the eye is sometimes small, the jaw bone tight, and the protrusion of the forehead (not a must with every strain) existing but continuing too low.”
She then warns the reader that the breed faces an imminent threat of extinction at the current conditions:
“With the death of the two men mentioned above, those once interested in propagation of the Dareshuri are losing interest and this horse may die out.”