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Yep.  This is purely my unsubstantiated opinion, but I don't see the  
Mongolian people getting very sentimental about their horses.  They  
take pride in them, yes, but I think they have a very different view  
than most folks from 'developed' nations:  basically, if it can't do  
the job, eat it.

I also am of the opinion that their Nadaam festival serves as a way of  
culling horses that aren't up to the job, so if a horse dies while  
being run flat out for 15 or 25 miles, it wasn't good enough to begin  
with.

After several hundred years of this type of management & culling, the  
horses in the population are going to be "pretty tough".

Again - this is totally my opinion, not based upon any kind of fact.  :)

On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Lif Strand wrote:

> At 04:50 PM 8/31/2009, paul@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > In the Mongol Derby, about 700 of them went between 15 and 25  
> > miles. There were no reported problems with the horses
>
> In Mongolia, horses that aren't "tough enough" don't contribute to  
> the gene pool.  If I was a Mongol pony I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be  
> limping in front of anyone with a sharp knife.
>
>
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