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Originally Posted by Dunbar
If what you say is true about the courts, then the artificial insemination ban would not have held up. Why not grab a bunch of Sunday Silence sperm and have another 100 years of Sunday Silence offspring? Wasn't that their property, too?
There are already regulations about what kind of horse can race in a thoroughbred race. Restricting it further to horses that are the offspring of 5-yr-old or older stallions isn't a huge leap of imagination.
As far as your last question, I already addressed that. An injured horse that has value as a breeding prospect can live happily for a year or 2 without being bred. Yes, the owners will have to wait a bit to collect the breeding dividend, and the dividend may be a little smaller with 1-2 years taken out of the breeding lifetime.
I agree with you that it is extremely unlikely we'll ever see this change take place. But it won't be the courts that stop it. It will be shortsightedness and fragmentation in the industry.
--Dunbar
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Well Sunday Silence is dead, so thats gonna throw a wrench into your idea there.
racing does not allow artificial insemination and the reason noone challenges it is because it single handedly wiped out all harness breeding farms and lowered the vlaue of all harness horses in miracle record time.
Breeders will never challenge that, lest their farms be worth pennies on the dollar.
YOu really have no idea whatyou are talking about. WHo would make the dteremination of how badly a horse is injured? Its all subjective and impossible to enforce. When trying to buy horses privately the lastest harsh stumbling block has become the new digital x rays which basically light up someting on each and evey horse you try and buy. Its a judgement call on what is and isn't unsound, and no way could yo just have a few vets(and who would they work for? Where would the power come from?) to go around and determine who is or isnt sound. Its a completely dumb idea anyway because owners would still just retire them, stand them overseas or in South America for two years or one year and then bring them back. It wouldn't change a damn thing, trust me it wouldnt.