Re: RE: Re. Sac. sale, "bred for endurance"?

["Cora" <bandc@teknett.com>]

Deno is a tall leggy Polish bred arab also...but he steers very tight
corners..races downhill..is overall extremely capable..of anything a smaller
horse is...you just need to "duck"  more than most riders!!!...Cora
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathy Mayeda <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>
To: Becky Huffman <tos@htcomp.net>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 7:47 AM
Subject: RC: RE: Re. Sac. sale, "bred for endurance"?


> > What do you consider to be "endurance
> breeding"?
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> Becky, I hope that the endurance breeding continues to grow.  I don't
> think that the specific endurance performance issue is as well developed
> in our breeding programs as the Russians and Polish are for racing
> Arabs, for example.
>
> Endurance miles right now just reflects that the horses were competed
> in endurance successfully.  To a certain extent, all Arabians have
> the genetic potential to compete in endurance.
>
> I have another questions that was going through my mind.....
>
> There are those that would go out of their way to buy a horse from
> your region for endurance.  Others would just buy the local (California)
> bred horse.  My thinking is that the California bred horse, specifically,
> the byproduct of the declining halter breeding market, is the faster
> horse for moderate rides, and that a mountain bred horse is more "handier"
> and can handle the more technical, rocky, hairier trails with ease.
>
> I have a tall leggy horse with halter breeding, mostly Polish/Russian with
> a touch of Crabbett.  I see the smaller, handier Arabs just slink
downhills
> over rough ground as if they were water.  I have to keep my big racer
> really compressed so that he doesn't fall on his face!  But he can blow
> a lot of horses away on a big, clear uphill gallop.  Just don't make me
> steer tight corners!
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