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Re: [RC] Still on breeeding ............ - heidiFortunately, Heidi That is no longer the case here. My understanding from the Registry is that breeding is down-- thank goodness-- and there actually is a shortage of athletic, performance horses. In fact, Riding magazine wrote an article about it a month ago. They felt the Arabian market could come back up because there is not the overproduction anymore. It's about time!! Except for breeding for my clients and one "ooops" baby (how Dancer did it through a five rail pipe corral we'll never figure out--- how far can it stretch??!!! :-) ), I haven't bred for a few years now. Bette The problem now is that there is still an overabundance of cheap geldings that are throwaways from the show programs, and the surviving breeding stock from folks who had the foresight to hang on to classical using horses and perpetuate them are a tiny minority of our breed. It used to be that the show programs were just the pinnacle of the riding horse world, so one COULD go to show barns and buy their spinoffs and get decent riding stock. That is no longer the case. So it can still be a tough thing to sort through the dross of the last few decades of breeding to find the good riding horses--unless one DOES make a major effort to educate one's self about what constitutes good riding type, and about programs that consistently produce same. They ARE out there--but there are still plenty of "the other kind" as well. Heidi ============================================================ Common sense should also be a part of the decision making process. If you see someone who doesn't have any, hand them your tool box. ~ Lisa Salas - The Odd Farm ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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