Re: Bask???

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 11:21 PM 4/24/00 -0500, Diane wrote:
> Funny, since the Bask breed is so undesirable,
> why are so many of us responding to this post??

Not *Bask breeding in general.  Not all of his offspring got all of
his genes - there were mares involved!  Some mares he was bred to
had what we might say less desirable (for endurance) genetic input and
others have more desirable.  That all gets carried along, too. 
So it really depends on which genes your horse inherits.  

When breeding, what the foal is capable of is strictly and totally
limited by what BOTH sire and dam contribute.  You can't make a
Formula One car out of a VW bug no matter how much you tune the bug up
(no fair talking about modification - you can't bolt good legs onto a
crooked legged horse).  You can't make an endurance horse out of a
horse that has not inherited genes that allow the rider to develop the
cardio-vascular system, muscles, tendons & bones to a level capable
of doing the miles.  You can try, but what I want everyone to
remember is that if you try and fail, it is the horse that suffers.

Jabask Knight clearly has good genes  - no argument there.  To
paraphrase Forrest Gump, "genes is as genes does" . 
Lif

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