re: endurance bloodlines

[Karen Sullivan <greymare@jps.net>]

I honestly have to wonder how much emphasis you can put on bloodlines.....I bet you could pick just about any prominent stallion, or mare lines and find
successful endurance lines.  Perhaps certain bloodlines are "popular" because those horses are the ones that happen to be compaigned by people that have the time and money to compete seriously.  I hear how many
Polish line horses do well......Egyptian...........Russian now.....Al Marah lines.....someone mentioned that HCC used CMK foundation mares, but they also had many horses that traced to Witez II........and the farther back you go, the more times it is likely it crops up in the pedigree.  Seems to me that there are just too many variables to building a good endurance horse.  

You would think conformation would be essential, but then again, you see horses at Tevis that have awful conformation, and horses that travel oddly.
Seems it's desire to go (heart), conformatin, conditioning, nutrition, a ton of luck, and the time, money and determination of the owner.  And many, many other factors.  Seems buying a young prospect based on bloodlines is a crap shoot.  

Of course, that is exactly what I did when I bought a weanling with Witez II
bloodlines which I like, and a COLOR that I liked!! I just don't take much of it seriously, then again, I am NOT a serious endurance competifor!

Karen  (all horses seem to share Witez II or Bask or Raffon), Naborr and
Khemosabi.  What do they have in common?  I like them all.


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