RE: [RC] [RC] Raffles breeding and endurance - heidi
No "presumably" about it.. <g> A horse that appears
"way back" in the pedigree but that represents 25% of the pedigree can actually have more of his genome represented in an individual than if he was a grandparent and thus also represented 25% of the pedigree, IF he occurs through a variety of his offspring. A horse like Wendy's that is 64% *Raffles may actually have more representation of *Raffles in his own genome than a son or daughter of *Raffles would have.
Most of our horses have anywhere from 12% to 20% Mesaoud breeding,
although only one still shows Mesaoud on a 5-generation pedigree. But one can clearly SEE the Mesaoud influence in several of them.
Heidi
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