this is very true - and frankly, what guarantee is there if one BUYS rather
than BREEDS a youngster that the blueprint would be any different, that it would
live up to all expectations? There is none, since the "blueprint" is a strong
indicator but not a guarantee. One young mare we bought as it turned out was
just about everything we HATED, in spite of her pedigree.
In a message dated 9/10/2008 8:58:45 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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pedigree is not a blueprint--it is a set of possibilities. In
order to know the range of that set of possibilities, you have to really
know what is in that pedigree--not just names (and how famous they are,
and what their show records are) but what the horses are REALLY
like.
