RE: RE: RE: Karahty (and Bloodlines in Arabs)

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

My point is the stallions listed as being top sires in the database are also
top sires of MOST North American bred arabs, whether they are bred for
endurance, show, pleasure, or whatever.  My horses were not bred for
specifically bred for endurance, they are domestic bred for halter.  But
they still claim those very same stallions in their pedigrees many
generations removed.  And my horses are not the ideal body type for
endurance because of their halter breeding (weak loins) - BUT THEY STILL
HAVE THOSE SAME ANCESTORS!

Sure, you could hedge your bets on a more modern stallion that is proven for
endurance.  I have no quarrel with that.  But to base a study to say that
all Arabs descending from Raffles (I'm just throwing out a name), because he
has so many get that are registered in the endurance registry, would be good
endurance prospects would be ludicrous.  So do you really think you are
making an intelligent decision?  I think that a wiser choice would be to buy
from a breeder who has a successful program in nuturing and training
endurance prospects along with long-term selective breeding, rather than to
buy a horse because he has ten lines to whoever.

I haven't bothered to check actual numbers of breeders who breed
specifically for endurance, but based on dollars spent on advertising
stallions, the endurance market is a very small percentage of the Arabian
market as a whole.  Just pick up a copy of Arabian Horse World and see how
many stallions are advertised for their endurance get.  Look at the number
of stallions advertised there, the dollar amount they spend for their
advertising, and then compare it to Endurance News.  And keep in mind that
the bloodlines shown in Arabian Horse World might be imported and therefore
popular for the moment, but Raffles was popular for the moment in his day -
and breeders back then were not breeding specifically for endurance.  And
then the breeders have horses to sell that don't quite make the grade in the
halter world, racing, or show ring for various reasons.  So what becomes of
them?  Pets, trail horses, performance horses, feedlot  prospects and
pasture ornaments.  Or maybe endurance or race horses.  Or there are a few
horses that were successful at halter to go onto endurance, like Remington
Steele.

Give me a break....


-----Original Message-----
From:	Webmaster [mailto:webmaster@endurancehorses.com]
Sent:	Thursday, April 20, 2000 5:13 PM
To:	Kathy Mayeda; CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; bobmorris@rmci.net;
katswig@earthlink.net
Cc:	ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject:	RE: RE: RE: Karahty (and Bloodlines in Arabs)

<...what does it really mean?>

It means that there is a need within the endurance community to educate
ourselves about our horses so that we don't have to make statements like
yours.  So that we might utter a sentence in regards to breeding that didn't
include the words, "...I think...that might...who probably."  I would much
rather be able to make an intelligent decision about a prospective horse
based on empirical evidence than take tours of feed lots hoping to find
another Red.

Let me make myself very clear that in no way do I think that this tiny
project comes close to the aforementioned empirical evidence; this whole
project was done simply as food for thought.

Our main focus was to raise the awareness that we need to do a better job of
utilizing the data assets that our sanctioning organizations maintain.  That
data and the data maintained by the breed organizations is the key to
understanding the successful breeding that actually produced an endurance
performer.  We should never slip into the complacency of just not being
bothering with it all.

Salim Nice

-----Original Message-----
From:	Kathy Mayeda [mailto:kathy_mayeda@atce.com]
Sent:	Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:10 PM
To:	CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; bobmorris@rmci.net; katswig@earthlink.net
Cc:	ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject:	RC:  RE: RE: Karahty (and Bloodlines in Arabs)

All this is very interesting statistically, but I think that there are many
modern stallions out there that might produce excellent endurance mounts but
never get into the endurance registries because their get are primarily used
for performance, pleasure, show, pasture ornaments, or breeding for
breeding's sake.   Since we are seeing a lot of successful endurance horses
being rescued from feedlots, who probably have a good lick of all these
stallions listed in their pedigree, what does it really mean to us?