Re: RC: breeder ethics

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/3/00 12:45:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, smw@sos.net 
writes:

<< Blame the fanatics of the fifties when everyone with two
 pennies to rub together was buying a couple of mares and
 breeding to the first stallion they could find - and then
 re-breeding, etc with total disregard for conformation or
 size..... the end result after fifty decades of that is a
 small, fine boned creature that no more resembles its desert
 ancestors than a toy poodle resembles the water dogs it was
 bred down from....... >>

And now we have fanatics breeding the other direction--where ANYTHING that is 
tall is bred, whether it is quality or not, because buyers will BUY horses 
that are tall, regardless of quality.  Occasionally tall Arabs happen in good 
programs--and those tend to have the qualities of the programs from whence 
they came.  However, when height becomes a breeding criterion at the expense 
of others, the results are often downright frightening.

Heidi