Re: RC: endurance prospect

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/4/00 1:31:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ribbitttreefrog@yahoo.com writes:

<< Anyway, wouldn't ALL arabs have the genetic potential to
 begin with?  >>

As a group, overall, they have more genetic potential for long distance work 
than, say, Quarter Horses, which have been selected and bred for something 
else entirely.  However, no two individuals have the SAME genetic potential 
(other than identical twins) because they do not have exactly the same genes! 
 It is easy to see that horses all "look" different--and they are different 
on the inside, too.  Every ability to make an enzyme or have a metabolic 
pathway for some particular thing is controlled genetically--and the sum of 
all that can vary a great deal from one to another, even within the same 
breed.

Heidi