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Nancy wrote:

> Whoa!
> Good questions, all of them.  

Since I have both non Arabs (walking horses) and Arabs - it depends on 
which mare I would be breeding. First I would look for an horse with 
conformation to complement the conformation of the mare. I would look 
for a stallion that would complement the mare's temperament. I don't 
mind a hot stallion, but not to a hot mare. If the mare were dead calm 
I'd want a stallion with a little heat. I would look at the heart rate 
and pick one on the low side of normal. Size - depends on the size of 
the mare. At any rate I would not want to breed to a stallion smaller 
than the mare.

If it were an Arab mare I would look at TB, saddlebred and maybe QH 
stallions along with Arabs and pick the best horse. If it were a walking 
horse mare and I decided not to breed to a walking horse, I'd look for 
an Arab stallion. It is important that I have spent enough time with a 
stallion to know him before I bred a mare to him.

As far as endurance background - there are so few stallions doing 
endurance that if you worried about that you would have a very small set 
to select from. Good conformation that complements the mare, big heart 
and the right temperment are more important to me than record. If the 
horse has a good endurance record all the better. And the final factor 
and maybe most important, does the stallion "feel right" to breed to the 
mare.

Truman

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