Re: RC: Re: Breeds

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/15/00 7:46:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, RhndLev@cs.com 
writes:

<< You've been lucky, Pat.  My first Arabs were well-bred on paper anyway, 
had 
 good conformation, but were not at all NICE. >>

I've always been curious about this bit about being "well bred on paper"--who 
defines what "well-bred" is?  In far too many cases the phrase "well-bred" is 
used in reference to having ancestors that someone paid a lot of money to 
promote, rather than to any particular qualities that those ancestors did or 
did not possess.  For the phrase to have any meaning, you really have to 
define what you mean by "well-bred" and then ascertain that the majority of 
ancestors did, indeed, possess the traits that you value.

Heidi