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Originally Posted by todko
We send some of the best mares each year to unproven stallions -- Black Type types who earned it on a shill. It hurts the breed. Do you think Bernardini's book will be filled by substandard mares? Hardly.
What you say is true -- if he does't prove it then the fee and book will drop. But by then the next hype story will take his place. And the wheel turns round again.
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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..