Re: RC: x-factor/heart scores

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/5/00 7:04:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
Brookie969@aol.com writes:

<< In  Bazy Tankersley's book ... And Ride Away Singing (pgs.229-230), she 
talks 
 about research on heart scores and performance/rapid recoveries.  She had 
her 
 stallions tested.  Is anyone else doing this?  Seems like it would be an 
 excellent marketing tool for stallion owners focused on  producing 
 endurance/racing athletes. >>


I'm trying to talk HHST into doing it--we've used it in TB racehorses and as 
a broad culling tool, it's quite useful. There are some who will never become 
athletes, despite their pedigree, straight legs, etc., strictly due to the 
fact that they have no "engine".

How this applies to the endurance horse is unknown at this point, but I'd 
like to have that knowledge.

ti