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I usually can glean the "horse-eeze" defintions if I read and wait long 
enough, but what the heck are  the CMK lines? Me thinks they are 
Crabbet??But not one will define the initials for those of us who are 
uninitiated!!!!! Thnaks, please tell me,I admit my ignorance!!!Laurie and 
Rascal  who is 50% 50% crabbet/WitezII, old timey chunk.






> From: "Heidi Smith" <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Ramspott.Kathy" <Kathy.Ramspott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RC]   Arabian 'lines' in endurance
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:02:58 -0700
>
>
> > I'm just curious, in some dressage shows the prizelist will have the 
> breed
> > next to the entries.  It is easy to see Hanovarians and Holsteiners seem
> to
> > dominate the warm blood dressage shows.
> >
> > In endurance is there any such record kept?  I"m wondering if there is a
> > line (not sure if that is the right word) of arabians that is more often
> > used in endurance then others.  I don't know the sires well enough to 
> pick
> > up on it that way.
> >
> > If any of you were to give an educated guess is the Polish more
> predominant
> > then the Egyptian or the Crabbet more popular then the Polish etc etc. 
> in
> > terms of entries in endurance competitions in the US.
>
> In terms of entries--all sorts of lines are entered.  In terms of what
> wins--you might find the following link of interest:
>
> http://www.sagehillcmk.com/CMK%20at%20Tevis.html
>
> After studying pedigrees of endurance horses for over 30 years, I'd have to
> say that CMK horses or crosses between CMK and other pre-WWII lines are the
> dominant horses in the sport.  CMK horses are a small minority of the gene
> pool, but they are extremely well represented in just about every aspect of
> endurance in which one can count achievement.  A few other old preservation
> groups of horses that only represent fractions of a percent in our gene 
> pool
> are also "over-represented" among the successful.  The main trend that one
> sees in successful endurance lines is that they tend to be lines that have
> not been markedly altered by specialization--for show or for any other
> one-use purpose.
>
> One of the biggest mistakes that people make in looking at endurance
> pedigrrees is to just look at the sires.  The dam lines are far more
> informative, and often a top-crossed pedigree will have a Polish or 
> Egyptian
> sire line but still be predominantly CMK.  Horses that actually qualify as
> CMK make up 3-5% of the gene pool--but 30-40% of top endurance horses.  A
> similar percentage of top endurance horses are of predominantly CMK 
> breeding
> but do not qualify as CMK because they lack a CMK sire line.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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