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Old 04-21-2009, 08:57 PM
JohnGalt1 JohnGalt1 is offline
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As a general rule new sires are bred to the best mares, to see if the offspring are quality.

As time goes on lower quality mares are bred to the sire.

So a Gone West's earlier offspring might be A+, his latter might be a B, for an overall A.

A horse breeder can give a better explanation than this handicapper.
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Old 04-21-2009, 09:00 PM
MISTERGEE MISTERGEE is offline
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I agree with all that, but I would like to see if there is a service that breaks it down that way statistically
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Old 04-21-2009, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnGalt1
As a general rule new sires are bred to the best mares, to see if the offspring are quality.

As time goes on lower quality mares are bred to the sire.

So a Gone West's earlier offspring might be A+, his latter might be a B, for an overall A.

A horse breeder can give a better explanation than this handicapper.
Not exactly true.

A stallion like Dynaformer was standing for 5K and getting a lot of crap mares back in the day when he sired a horse like Blumin Affair.

His book of mares obviously got a ton better as his offspring did much better than expected.
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