Re: RC: DNA testing update

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/9/00 7:00:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, Tivers writes:

<< Which leads you to wonder how breeders can possibly think they are dealing 
in :"genetics" at all. >>

By the same science that you quoted about humans in which 40% of athletic 
performance is attributed to genetics--it is my understanding that the same 
is true for horses.  All the quoted research says is that there is sufficient 
genetic overlap among animals that have not "separated" as recently as horse 
breeds that you cannot say with certainty that this *IS* a TB and that *IS* 
an Arab, and be 100% certain.  If you doubt the validity of dealing with 
genetics, I'd refer you straight to the scientists such as the 
Bowlings--since you prefer the literature, better go straight to the horse's 
mouth, so to speak.

Heidi