Re: RC: Re: Bask???

[David LeBlanc <dleblanc@mindspring.com>]

At 09:31 AM 4/25/00 -0600, Lif Strand wrote: 
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> 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??
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> 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.  

So then it really wouldn't be fair to say that Bask lineage is neccessarily a bad thing?  It would probably be a lot better to think about excluding his lines where the mares weren't the stock you need for endurance.  After all, with as many horses as have his genes, there are going to be lots of good and bad.

Plus, as you point out, there is still a bit of an element of chance in the whole thing - you can breed the same 2 parents several times and get different results.



David LeBlanc
dleblanc@mindspring.com