Europeen people learned to understand and appreciate horse species through many successive invasions they suffered. Arabian horses, in particular : these small horses that had been bred lovingly and intelligently for many centuries by the Bedouins rapidly intrigued and then seducted Spain (and later France) because of their war abilities, their extreme mobility and their rapidity.Crusaders had many times the opportunity to discover to their cost the fantastic quality of these little horses.  Spain, conquered by these new horses, would move progressively from a use as a breed improver stage of the Arabian horse to a selection of bloodlines in order or create a specific type with clearly defined characters that would make the
 Spanish Arabian horse
The history of the purebred Spanish Arabian horse can be schematically divided into 4 parts