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Re: [RC] did AHA give in or did they have no choice - Sisu West Ranch"...But I will say that I am pretty proud of my 'pure' horses with their geneticconsistency. When I look back over the few years I've been breeding and see the quality and type of what I'm getting, I'm pretty happy and feeling no inclination to "let anything else in" in my program...." Of course you are justifiably proud of your program. You carefully pick, from the available gene pool, those horses you feel will work for you. You will never use, nor will anyone try to make you use, any horse you do not approve of. My point is that the decisions as to which horses to admit to registries is often made on the basis of the golden rule.(He who has the gold rules). Some things I have read indicate that Wendy's favorite Arabian sire, Raffles, had a suspect granddam. If this is true, many American Arabian horses can not trace all lines to the desert. While some breeders avoid using these bloodlines, I have not ever heard a call to remove all of these horses from the AHA and call them "half Arabs". Even if someone produced undenyable scientific evidence that these bloodlines contain northern European horse genes, economics would prevent their removal from the AHA My other point is that people use loaded words, that often obscure the realities of a situation. Pure is good, impure is bad etc. My half Arabian horses are not "impure" in the sense that polluted water is. Purity for its own sake is not the basis for a breeding program. Superior genetics is. Depending upon the breed, the breeder, and the objectives of the program different people will make different selections from what they consider to be the relavent gene pool. Ed Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower Road Victor, MT 59875 (406) 642-9640 ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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