re: breeding

["Becky Huffman" <TOS@htcomp.net>]

And if there were no one to pick up the culls, they would all go to the
killers, and those breeders would keep right on producing their 500 per
year.  What a shame that they are keeping us from developing and using
Endurance Horses, instead of picking up and using their scraps.

Becky Huffman
Huffman's Arabians ~ The Original Series ~
http://www.htcomp.net/Huffman/


----- Original Message -----
From: Truman Prevatt, Ph.D. <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>
> Lif, I think you answered your own question. Race breeders produce a lot
> more horses than they will ever need because if a great race horse is
> one of 100 good race hores, you'll breed 500 and let the cream rise to
> the top. Probably the same is true for show horses.
>
> The rest are culls. They may be great horses but they are not the cream
> of the racing world, or show world or whatever. So as they concentrate
> on their cream, they have no reason to feed the other 490, so they have
> to go for bargin basement prices or to the killers - whichever produces
> more revenue