Family 13 or 6???

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Family 13 or 6???

Postby xfactor fan » Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:43 pm

Was looking into Whakilyric by Miswaki. In this database she's listed as being from family 13-b. Goes back to the Sedbury Royal Mare.

The Sporthorse database lists the same mare as being from family 6, goes back to the Sedbury Royal Mare, who is out of the Old Morocco Mare, out of Old Bald Peg.

Any clue as to what is going on?

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Postby Pan Zareta » Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:36 pm

The tail female pedigree for Whakilyric as shown in the db here is in agreement by family # (13) and earliest identified tap with the major published sources. Old English stock is not my specialty, but fwiw I know of no evidence supportive of family 13 being a branch of fam. 6, which is how it's shown in the SH db. The mtDNA analyses published thus far which correlate haplotype and family number would certainly contradict it.


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Postby xfactor fan » Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:42 am

Thanks Parlo & Pan Zaretta

I'd looked at the TB Heritage site to confirm the mtDNA info. My concern was that there might have been a new development either in testing, or historical record that might have linked the two mares.
Looks like someone made the entry in error.