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Originally Posted by pgardn
If you could add heart with the obvious athletes, then that 35% would go way up. I am very partial to horses that dont quit, especially after big setbacks. The problem is figuring out which horses they are. And that of course is done on the track.
But who cares about all this. I wanna see athletes compete on the track, not in the shed. Thats why the thread is interesting, but at the same time a bit disconcerting.
But I understand the fascination as genetics is a very inexact science. One day someone is going to find the combination of genes that have the highest probability of making good runners. Then all hell will break loose. They are mapping the Thoroughbred genome as we speak. In fact, they may be done. Cornell was coordinating and distributing the work. It will be interesting to see how people take this data and try to correlate it with performance. Its coming.
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I agree that there is no way to know how much heart a horse has from watching them work an 1/8th of a mile at a sale.
With regard to breeding, it's really not that important to me who a horse is by. If I like the way a horse works at a sale, I'm going to be interested in him no matter who he is by. One of the best horses I ever bought was by a sire that I knew very little about.