Re: RC: x-factor/heart scores

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Ti
I'll see if there is anyone around here who does that kind of testing
and send the results to you for your research. Only catch, does the
horse have to be running before tested; if so, Hal can't do it with his
injury but I could do an offspring. What is entailed?
Bette

Tivers@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/5/00 7:04:16 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> Brookie969@aol.com writes:
> 
> << In  Bazy Tankersley's book ... And Ride Away Singing (pgs.229-230), she
> talks
>  about research on heart scores and performance/rapid recoveries.  She had
> her
>  stallions tested.  Is anyone else doing this?  Seems like it would be an
>  excellent marketing tool for stallion owners focused on  producing
>  endurance/racing athletes. >>
> 
> I'm trying to talk HHST into doing it--we've used it in TB racehorses and as
> a broad culling tool, it's quite useful. There are some who will never become
> athletes, despite their pedigree, straight legs, etc., strictly due to the
> fact that they have no "engine".
> 
> How this applies to the endurance horse is unknown at this point, but I'd
> like to have that knowledge.
> 
> ti
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