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Re: [RC] 'pound dog' mentality for horses? - heidiI'm not anti-breeder but in this sport it is where the rubber meets the road that is important. You can't ride the registration across the finish line and there are very few vets that I know that would not pull because you show them the papers to convience them that horses in your's line never get lame. Truman, you and others are dancing around the point here. We are ALL after the horses with the necessary traits. Selection is a game of odds. A horse with ancestry consistent with success in the sport, at least in my experience, has about 3 chances on 4 of being a success at it, whereas if you're lucky, the auction selection has, maybe, one chance in 20. NO ONE here will argue against the successful horse who isn't bred for it--there is the "extreme" in the cases of the pedigrees that tend to be unsuccessful as well, and if you are fortunate enough to get one that got really lucky in the roll of the dice, then more power to you. The take-home message here is that you will increase your chances of finding the very sorts of horses you are describing by going to breeders who actually select for those traits, and who understand the ancestry of their horses so that they know where to look to find those traits in breeding stock. In athletics - human and equine the world is made up of Cinderella stories. Well, no, it really isn't. It is made up of people (or horses, in this case) with talent and drive who did their homework and made the most of the fact that they were talented. The reason that Cinderella stories make the news is because they ARE the rarities. If they were commonplace, they wouldn't make the news. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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