The way of a horse's going is the truth of him.

Blue List

In 1952, Miss Jane Llewellyn Ott began a list of the horses proven in every line to trace directly to the Bedouin bred horses of the desert.  In 1961, the "Blue Arabian Horse Catalog" was published.  Miss Ott continued the catalog until the early 70s, when she closed her research.  

As she compiled the "Blue Catalog," Miss Ott placed an asterix next to the names of horses that she considered to be of exceptional quality and a standard above the others. These horses are generally referred to as Blue Star and the remainder of the horses in her catalog as Blue List. The background of both of these groups is the same, except that the Blue Star Arabians have no Mu'niqi strain blood in their extended pedigrees, while the Blue List animals may have it in an amount varying from full Mu'niqi in a few of the early imports, to a fraction of a percent in our modern day horses. 

The horses listed in Miss Ott's blue catalog are first Asil. Many are not Egyptian, but her work was extremely important in influencing the breeding of true purebred Arabian horses in the United States.