PETA - Big Brown

Bobby Fischer · #1 10-15-2008, 01:48 PM

Good to know PETA would support and sponsor horse racing if certain breeding practices were followed.

Bobby Fischer · #2 10-15-2008, 01:52 PM

Brown was sound enough to be the star of the 3yo division.

If some of his offspring have soft feet and can't race - they aren't gonna make it to breeding. These things have a way of working themselves out.

ateamstupid · #3 10-15-2008, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer

Brown was sound enough to be the star of the 3yo division.

If some of his offspring have soft feet and can't race - they aren't gonna make it to breeding. These things have a way of working themselves out.

How does this make sense? If Big Brown made it to breeding, why couldn't his offspring if they were good enough?

Payson Dave · #4 10-15-2008, 02:01 PM

I may be in the minority here... but imho BB is a more legitimate candidate for stud duty than at least half the stud population out there right now.....unless I missed something his retirement is not due to soundness issues but rather due to an injury that was sustained during training....and while it has been pretty well documented that he has had feet problems, I'm of the opinion that there are few if any horses that don't have some type of issues during there racing career.... I don't think he will necessarilly become a notably great sire but I don't agree that he will be negatively impacting the breed as compared to many many of the sires that are out there at this time.

Linny · #5 10-15-2008, 02:32 PM

Look at the pics of his feet. He has more patch than foot. His feet are dreadful. His sire has bad feet too.

philcski · #6 10-15-2008, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Payson Dave

I may be in the minority here... but imho BB is a more legitimate candidate for stud duty than at least half the stud population out there right now.....unless I missed something his retirement is not due to soundness issues but rather due to an injury that was sustained during training....and while it has been pretty well documented that he has had feet problems, I'm of the opinion that there are few if any horses that don't have some type of issues during there racing career.... I don't think he will necessarilly become a notably great sire but I don't agree that he will be negatively impacting the breed as compared to many many of the sires that are out there at this time.

I agree with most of this... there is a sire out there right now who stands for six figures who has almost 500 registered progeny, of which a grand total of NINE have started 30 or more times (which I'd consider a good 'durability' number)- less than 2%.

Scav · #7 10-15-2008, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by philcski

I agree with most of this... there is a sire out there right now who stands for six figures who has almost 500 registered progeny, of which a grand total of NINE have started 30 or more times (which I'd consider a good 'durability' number)- less than 2%.

who?

Honu · #8 10-15-2008, 03:04 PM

Breeding is luck of the draw , you can breed a correct horse to a correct mare and get a crooked legged foal , you can breed a correct stallion to a crooked mare and get a perfect foal. To me its the heart that matters and Big Brown has shown that he has the heart to race on three man-made feet and race pretty well.

Riot · #9 10-15-2008, 03:16 PM

PETA has zero interest in breeding a sounder race horse, PETA's goal is stopping the "abuse" of all horses by totally eliminating man's use of them in any manner whatsover.