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Originally Posted by Cajungator26
Besides the subject horse, what other horses in his close genetic background show a disposition to quarter cracks? Also, has it been proven that a tendency to quarter cracks can be passed along? I know that his line is filled with unsound horses, but I'm not convinced that quarter cracks can be passed along. If anything, Big Brown will have problems passing on any genes at all ... his sire had been documented as having fertility problems and Danzig didn't have the easiest of times either.
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I am much more convinced quarter cracks
can be passed on than speed and endurance.
If one were to ask any sane person who knows
anything about genetics to weigh the two against
each other (speed/endurance v. quarter cracks)
it would clearly be an anatomical developmental
flaw which a quarter crack is.
And I am not convinced a quarter crack must
be genetic either. But is more likely to be than
speed and endurance. Thats for sure.