breeding back to same stallion ?
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breeding back to same stallion ?
i want to pose a question.....ive bred a mare to stallion "x"....the resulting foal is the best ive ever bred , attitude, conformation wise ect....i have waited til this foal was 2yo all indications are from breaking and training are that this one could be the real deal...that being said should i send the mare back to "x" for another try ? i ask this because as a rule ive never done this ..always going to another stallion....this would only be this mares second foal....what do you all think ?
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madelyn wrote:If you are really in love with the baby, why WOULDN'T you send the mare back to the same stallion?
the only reason i can come up with is jimp's reason...lighting strikinging twice is rare...but the upside if the 2yo is as good as i think could be good ...{selling as a NYB}...thanks for the comments ...i guess i just had to hear it from someone other than myself...
A great man cannot help himself," "He can see things that other men cannot see themselves, and his greatness lies in doing whatever is necessary to make his vision real
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Here is an article in the Bloodhorse mag about breeding back to the same stallion.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... -and-again
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... -and-again
One of my partners once told me that he had 4 children and all four had the same pedigree and all four were totally different.
I told him there was probably not much line-breeding in either or his wife's pedigree
And that if looked real hard he could probably find some common trates.
I believe Secretariat has several full siblings and while none were Secretariat, I'll bet all were pretty good horses.
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I told him there was probably not much line-breeding in either or his wife's pedigree
And that if looked real hard he could probably find some common trates.
I believe Secretariat has several full siblings and while none were Secretariat, I'll bet all were pretty good horses.
griff
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reenci wrote:madelyn wrote:If you are really in love with the baby, why WOULDN'T you send the mare back to the same stallion?
the only reason i can come up with is jimp's reason...lighting strikinging twice is rare...but the upside if the 2yo is as good as i think could be good ...{selling as a NYB}...thanks for the comments ...i guess i just had to hear it from someone other than myself...
Lightning can strike twice. If ANYONE ever gets a big runner and owns the factory, lightning will strike again in the sale ring. Unless you have more money than you know what to do with ALWAYS SELL full siblings to big runners. You will be money ahead.
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griff wrote:off the subject a tad but lighting does tend to strick in the same place over and over. It seems to like well grounded [wet] trees in isolated areas. We lost some cows under that same tree twice one summer, before we took the tree down.
griff
True dat. We have a sandy hill in our woods where trees very close to one another have been lightning-struck repeatedly.
My late uncle's house has been hit by lightning at least 3 times since his family has lived there (about 60 years).
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