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> > If you do it "in general" then yes, it becomes a crapshoot.  And this is
what too many people do--they have a "general" pedigree with no
consistency to it, and then they come away saying that the pedigree has no 
prognostic value.>>

Heidi, all your points are well taken.  The reason I threw this out was still 
on the subject of a "no name" horse, or one where you either cannot trace any 
living relatives, no performance records (might have been a rescue horse where 
papers were lost, etc) or where none of the offspring were registered so that 
you can't trace the relatives.  What you have is the horse in front of you, and 
your belief that the individual will produce quality offspring (not doing the 
"aaaaawwww, wouldn't it be nice to have a baby" thing!), but a genuine belief 
in what you see in front of you.

It would be nice to be able to do all the breeding on paper and trace all 
records, but sometimes that just ain't practical ;-))

Kristene
South Africa

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