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It's interesting that Kat used Spectacular Bid as an example. He ended
his career near here and a large # of his off spring have become sport
horses locally. Probably because they didn't excel at the track. I know
of one that has done a 50.
 When I was looking for an Arab mare to breed a Hispano -arabe, I found
and bought my endurance horse's mother. I know that she has produced a
100 mile horse - that I like to ride.  Libby

Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM wrote:
> > While successful performance of the individual stallion himself at
> > whatever the discipline in question can be a good predictor of success
> > at producing successful performers (in fact it is probably one of the
> > best predictors), a stallion is not "proven" as a breeding stallion
> > until it has foals that are successfully performing.
> >     
> Then, agreeing with your post, let me rephrase my point.  *I* would look for 
> a stallion that had some significant performance pertaining to the discipline 
> I was shopping for in the near neighborhood---himself, his own close-up 
> ancestors, sibs, offspring, whatever.  I understand proving through offspring 
> is ideal, but its not always available for the reasons you discuss.  My point 
> being that pedigree doesn't suffice all by itself, without SOMEONE in the 
> close family having put the pedigree to the test via performance.  I agree 
> with the statement that you can't ride a pedigree.  I understand that 
> pedigree is important, but it's not an exclusive concept.
>
> As always, JMO.
>
> Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
>
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