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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The biggest reason that the breed suffers is simply the number of horses being bred. There are too many horses who should not be bred at ALL. The number of foals produced worldwide has to be over 50000. That is just way too many horses. No one culls mares out to pasture, they cull them to other people who breed them to inferior stallions and produce bad foals who in turn produce more bad foals....I truly believe that if we cut the number of horses being produced to a reasonable number, restricted book size to around 50, and made it less profitable to be in the breeding and selling business you would see a upturn number of starts made by horses both yearly and lifetime..

AMEN...I could not agree more.

[Pedigree Ann]

Not only do overhyped "flavor of the month" stallions often waste many production years of potentially good broodmares, they keep the level of mare going to good racing, less fashionably-bred stallions down. A Nodouble or Ack Ack wouldn't have a chance in today's market - look at the way the fashionistas write about Slew City Slew and Lord Avie, G1 winners, good solid sires who get no respect.