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Angie,

Actually you and I discussed this several years ago and the 
conclusion was that if your horse was a purebred but unregistered 
- you should select the proper breed category.

AERC can easily tell the difference between a registered horse and 
an unregistered one simply because there will be a registration 
number for one and not for the other.  If any studies are done 
where it's important that the horse be registered - it's easy to 
exclude the non-registered ones.

I know some would prefer to be purists on this and *only* list a 
category if the horse was actually registered.  I appreciate their 
point of view but feel that we may have more accurate endurance 
statistics if we go with the breed rather than require a 
registration number.  Breed awards determined by breed 
associations will use only the horses with registration numbers.

This isn't an official AERC view though - just mine.

I'm glad you are enjoying the statistics.  Some are easy to do and 
others not.

Mike

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > It looks like very few of us consider our horse's breed to be 
> > Grade anymore...
>
> My present  horse isn't registered, neither was Kaboot. I listed them as
> Arab because I *knew* Kaboot was, was told Gunner is and he looks it. I
> never thought it was very fair to true grade horses when some really nice
> Arabs listed themselves as Grade just because they hadn't bothered to
> register them.  Am I doing right? Would you rather I called my horse
> "grade"?  I guess I could refer to Gunner as 1/2 Arab, but then I'd have
> to come up with an imaginary other breed to guess he was crossed with
> every time someone asked. >g<
>
> By the way, loving all the stats you're putting out  How's about some 100
> miler stats. What *riders* did the most 100's? What horses?  I'm betting
> the NE has the most 100's per capita.
>
> Angie 
>  

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