RE: Bask-bred endurance horses

["Corry, Lynda H." <lcorry@velaw.com>]

	Guess I should have identified myself as the author of the
following post.  Sorry!

Lynda Corry & Baskhari
lcorry@velaw.com

> ----------
> From: 	Corry, Lynda H.
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 17, 1998 1:16 PM
> To: 	'suendavid@worldnet.att.net'
> Cc: 	'Ridecamp'
> Subject: 	RE: Bask-bred endurance horses
> 
> 	Hiya back, Susan!  I'm definitely not a breeder and it sounds
> like you have some first-hand knowledge, but perhaps because of the
> "breeding frenzy of the '80's" (and perhaps due to "back yard
> breeding" efforts as well), I think the pendulum for any Arab
> bloodline can swing in both directions.  Agreed?  You can find good
> performers and bad performers out there in spite of the pedigree.  In
> fact, my ten-year veteran was never registered and his father, EW
> Sabask, was bred to an unknown (at least by me) mare named Risha Khari
> that I never laid eyes on (that's about all I know of Baskhari's
> background).  So Baskhari, therefore, could very well have been "back
> yard bred" as well.  Doesn't bother me -- whatever his lineage, I
> couldn't have asked for a better horse with a better disposition.
> Now, I'm curious -- how many of you out there have good horses with
> Bask in the pedigree?
> 
> 
> 	----------
> 	From: 	Susan Evans
> Garlinghouse[SMTP:suendavid@worldnet.att.net]
> 	Reply To: 	suendavid@worldnet.att.net
> 	Sent: 	Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:52 PM
> 	To: 	Corry, Lynda H.
> 	Cc: 	'Ridecamp'
> 	Subject: 	Bask-bred endurance horses
> 
> 	Corry, Lynda H. wrote:
> 	> 
> 	>         I just wanted to pitch in my two cents worth regarding
> Bask
> 	> horses as well ... Baskhari is my first and only endurance
> horse, and we
> 	> just recently had our "ten year anniversary" together.
> 
> 
> 	Cookie Hickstein wrote:
> 	 Where did you ever hear to stay away from Bask bred arabs for
> 	endurance? My husbands Bask bred gelding is going on 4000 miles
> this
> 	year, my gelding is bask/Witez II bred and we love the
> bloodline!  My
> 	son as a junior rider put over 2000 miles on his Bask/witezII
> gelding. 
> 	They all have wonderful recoveries and do very well.
> 
> 
> 
> 	Hiya,
> 	This is absolutely not meant as criticism against all Bask
> horses, but
> 	IMHO, if ever there were a line of horses that needed to be
> judged on
> 	individual merits and not simply because of their pedigrees,
> this is the
> 	one.  Gene LaCroix is a member of the Kellogg Foundation and
> without
> 	getting into particulars, let's just say I am NOT impressed with
> the
> 	level of integrity and honesty he has displayed (and I'm no
> pollyanna,
> 	either).  I used to be a member of the advisory panel and it was
> very
> 	well-known that Gene LaCroix would have allowed Bask to breed to
> a
> 	schnauzer if the check would clear.
> 
> 	Again, this is absolutely not a flame against Bask horses---the
> only
> 	point I'm trying to make is that LaCroix used Bask like his own
> personal
> 	ATM/sperm bank, exhibited zero selection when mares were brought
> to
> 	Bask, and for every good Bask-bred horse, there are dozens of
> pieces of
> 	garbage, many of whom were also allowed to breed on because Bask
> was
> 	holier than holy and everybody was frantically breeding
> pedigrees back
> 	then instead of horses.
> 
> 	I admit that one of the most athletic horses I ever knew was by
> a Bask
> 	son, and I would have killed to own that horse.  And obviously
> there are
> 	other good Bask-bred horses out there doing very well---I guess
> I'm just
> 	not quite so ready to lay the credit solely at Bask's door,
> instead of
> 	the dam lines, the upbringing, the rider, etc.  I've certainly
> handled
> 	an awful lot of Bask-bred babies at Cal Poly and liked very few
> of them
> 	(as endurance prospects, anyway), but that's another story.  I
> also
> 	turned down free breedings to Reign On, considered one of Bask's
> 	"better" sons, and I've seen a ton of truly nasty-looking,
> over-priced
> 	horses whose only salvation from going on the truck to Texas was
> a
> 	pedigree that said Bask.  Let's just say the Bask pendulum can
> swing
> 	pretty widely in BOTH directions.
> 
> 	Anyway, this really sounds like I'm trashing all Bask horses and
> I don't
> 	mean to.  My only point is that if I were looking at an
> endurance
> 	prospect, and Bask was in the pedigree, I sure would do back
> flips
> 	making sure that the mare(s) Bask was bred to was truly worth
> breeding,
> 	and that the offspring was also true breeding quality, not just
> a
> 	by-product of the breeding frenzy of the '80's.
> 
> 	That old saying, "you can't ride the papers" was never more true
> than
> 	when applied to Bask.
> 
> 	Just my .02 of course.
> 
> 	Susan Garlinghouse
> 
>