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Obviously people are going to do what they are going to do, and as we do 
not live in a police state, we are not going to stop the backyard 
breeder and I for one feel uncomfortable setting myself up as a judge of 
who should breed and who shouldn't. If someone has the resources to take 
care of a baby and wants to breed her/his mare-- who has the right to 
tell her/him not to? And how would those decisions be made? By halter 
people? Dressage people? Endurance People? You catch my drift.
As we cannot tell people who has the right to breed and who doesn't, I 
for one would support a system which at least has a shot at making sure 
that the stallions approved in that particular registry have good 
conformation (not by size or halter standards, not by the "fad of the 
day" standards, but by basic standards of generally agreed upon ideas of 
good movement and conformation).
When you start judging people by their motives for breeding and start 
talking about who has the "right" to breed, I guess it gets my dander 
up. There are too many "knowledgeable" people breeding horses with major 
conformational flaws and who breed just too dang MANY horses that they 
ultimately "dispose" of. We are never going to stop them. So again, if 
someone wants to breed Bessie and has the money to raise and keep the 
foal, whatever the outcome, who is to say that is wrong.
I vote for positive solutions to give people tools to make wise 
decisions.. and then again... they may not and that has to be OK too.
Bette

Heidi Smith wrote:
> > In a message dated 3/15/03 3:25:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>
> woa@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > writes:
> >
> >
> > > I am not implying that people could not breed to unapproved
> > > stallions----  merely that it would be nice for such a registry to
> exist
>
> > > for the person not really knowledgeable about conformation issues nor
> > > about what to look for in movement
> >
> > My take on this is that if a person is not knowledgeable about
>
> conformation
>
> > and movement, they need to become so BEFORE they start breeding.  If they
> > don't want to take the time to learn these things, they have no business
> > breeding!  That's part of the problem with the Arabian horse today.
>
> People
>
> > who have no idea what functional conformation or correct movement are, are
> > breeding because they want to produce "living art".
>
>
> Amen!  Well said!  And all too often, it is the persistent breeders with
> vision and knowledge who keep the functional segment of any breed going,
> while the fads follow along on the coattails of the "inspectors" and
> "judges."  Even with those who have little knowledge participating, it is
> far better to have several functional visions at work than only those
> visions of a select few.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians
Home of 16.2h TLA Halynov
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