The Puro Sangue Orientale is a horse breed from Italy, created in 1875 by Royal Decree, the Italian government imported desert bred Arabian horses from Syria and Mesopotamia. Numerous breeding horses where imported directly from Bedouin tribes and went to the Royal Remount Station in Catania.
Today only 170 Puro Orientale horses, of which 150 live in Sicily. Its numbers have been declining, and the Government Stud where it is bred is carrying out a policy of crossing with other strains of Arabian horses, causing the dilution of the qualities of the original Syrian desert bred strain.
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