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> My, what beautiful and ATHLETIC-looking horses.
> Keeping the horses "Colonial" certainly seems to have been "the  thing".
> ~Frank
Just want to make the point that the Australian "Colonial" horses are very
much the same thing as America's "CMK" horses.  But in Australia, the
Colonial breeding has remained the mainstay of their national gene pool
until fairly recently, whereas here, the CMK lines have been outcrossed
and outcrossed and outcrossed to the point that there only remains about
5% of our American Arabian population that has sufficient CMK blood to
qualify as being CMK.

Despite the small number of CMK horses in our population, they seem to
appear with regularity at the forefront of endurance--far higher
percentages of endurance success than their percentages in the population.
And if you add the other old-line (pre-WWII) horses of other lines to
their ranks (which are even more rare in the population, but are
frequently crossed with CMK) one finds a significant pattern.  If one does
not look at the sire line requirement for CMK but only looks at the
percentages in pedigrees (which IMO is quite relevant for looking at
performing horses, as opposed to breeding stock), the numbers are even
more amazing.  Just to name a few who have high percentages of CMK and
other old line breeding (so would be the equivalent of the Australian
Colonial horses):  Bezatal, Rio (Egyptian sire line but 3/4 old breeding,
primarily CMK), RT Muffin, Kahlil, DR Thunder Bask (despite his *Bask sire
line), Sierra Fadwah, all of the Rushcreek horses, the early Hyannis
horses (early on they were out of CMK mares, and some, like Law Thunder,
actually were CMK), On A High, Potato's Fille de Caillana, many of the
Rojek horses, many of Stagg's horses (at least CMK dams), Benjih, BRR
Aurber Lights, GA Tyfa Mynte, and I could go on for pages.  I need to
update my Tevis and Haggin winner study, as the one on my site is 2-3
years old, but the recent winners still fit the pattern I set forth there.

The equivalent of "Colonial" breeding is alive and well in this country,
albeit rather swamped by the modern show breeding, but Dr. Nik and others
are absolutely right--these sorts of horses are the ones producing a high
number of successful international horses, never mind top horses right
here at home.

Heidi



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