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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] appys - heidiIf the results I remember are true, they do not prove that much about Spanish Mustangs. We do know that the genes of Spanish horses was wide spread in the western USA in 1925 when Robert Brislawn and others started collecting horses that they thought looked like they were Spanish. If they selected based on reasonable appearance criteria, they should have obtained foundation stock that contained a lot (a majority? a bunch? quite a bit? some?) Spanish DNA. Many of the descendents of these horses should have markers characteristic of modern horses in Spain. Big deal, we already knew that many horses in the American west are at least partly descended from Spanish horses. Well, exactly. And where did the Spanish horses get the markers? They had infusions of Arab and Barb breeding from Muslim invasions and from horses that Crusaders brought home. And they had markers from traditional European breeding. So those markers don't even prove that the horses came from Spain--only that they all have common ancestry of some sort. Heck, we know that... Heidi ============================================================ Many of the endurance riders in our top echelons of competition, now and in the past, exemplify the 'common man' not the hierocracy. It is this possibility, this chance to come to the fore, that makes endurance competition of the Aussie/American type so much more desirable to part of the world. ~ Bob Morris ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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