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Just in case you haven't heard about MMF Thunder's Echo..Misty Mountain 
Farms newest stallion...

He is a DR Thunder Bask son out of a Koszar dtr. He is a 3/4 brother to my 
Fellow..and boy is he a nice boy! I saw Cheri Brisco riding him at Eastern 
Mojave last February...he is definitely an "Echo" of his daddy!

If you like Crabbet/Polish horses..check him out! Proven endurance lines 
from all sides.

www.mistymoutainfarm.net



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> From: "Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM" <suendavid@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <suendavid@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [RC]   andalusian crosses
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:49:42 -0700
>
> >Any of my Andalusian horses could do endurance but you won't see them out
> there, they are much too valuable back home creating more babies.
>
> Speaking ONLY for myself, I have a problem with the concept that a breeding
> animal is too valuable just making more babies to first or concurrently
> prove themselves in high-end performance BEFORE putting them into a 
> breeding
> shed.  Not that trail riding,  training level schooling, a Spanish walk
> <insert beginning disciplines here> aren't good skills to possess, but 
> again
> speaking only for myself (and having owned some high end broodmares <not a
> Spanish bred>), I personally would not consider breeding to any stallion
> that had not thoroughly proven himself in upper echelon
> performance---endurance, jumping, eventing, third-level or better dressage
> at the national level, etc.  For that matter, I would not breed the mare in
> the first place if she hadn't earned the right to do so with something
> better than just a pedigree.  Especially as there are MANY excellent
> stallions that have the ability to be competing at national performance
> levels, and going about their reproductive business at the same time
> (Remington Steele comes to immediate mind, but he's just one of many in 
> many
> different disciplines).  Same goes for mares, with some obvious 
> limitations.
>
> But, that's just me, though it's also the general policy of most of the
> European breeding programs, as well as that of many American breeders.  It
> occurs to me it's a lot easier to say any horse "could" do endurance (or
> other high level performance disciplines), but are too valuable to put it 
> to
> the test, than to actually go out and demonstrate it to be true, and thus
> let the horse's record speak for itself.
>
> JMO.
>
> Susan Garlinghouse, DVM



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