<< Also, why are those of you out there with mares (retired or resting
endurance mares) breeding those animals. They must have traits that you
would like to see passed on in their offspring. If you didn't believe that
your mare would pass on something worthwhile, you would go out and buy a
foal that is already on the ground.
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Great place to rest our collective case from the rbeeder's standpoint. Given
1 or 2 opportunities to reproduce, our mares may or may not be bred again,
depending upn what they produce. Not necessarily by pedigree alone, but by
judicious consideration of strain, we have chosen out horses to complement
each other, somcetimes within the straight lines and sometimes not! But in
all cases, they are bred or bought with the antiquity of the breed foremost.
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