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Re: [RC] Thoroughbreds - Sisu West Ranch

"...O yea, the answer is, drum roll please, a THOROUGHBRED..."
 
But, and here is the big BUT, only if you singlemindedly select the offspring for 2 or 3 hundred years to run very fast over short distances when they are young.  You ignore any other characteristics (disposition, good feet, whatever).
 
You could singlemindedly select for very small horses for the same length of time and instead get a pony.
You could singlemindedly select for horses that could run 100 miles in 24 hours from the time they were 5 until they had 10,000 miles of competition.  You then, 200 years later, would have great endurance horses.
 
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser
2994 Mittower Road
Victor, MT 59875
 
(406) 642-9640
 

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