The article was interesting to me because of Firewater Fiesta. I've known the mare since she was a futurity horse, she is a great mare from a great line of horses. Sounds like SHE is the outcross, not Deregulate. Firewater Fiesta is the kind of AQHA horses I'm around so it's hard for me to see the huge issue on needing outcrosses to TB's. So many people in the "real world" have lines of horses that they've bred for generations and these horses have heart, size, bone, brains and speed. Most of them do have some speed breeding or they wouldn't be fast enough to win a barrel race or catch a steer. You see them every day at rodeos, barrel races and ropings.

Thanks for posting the article, ftfotb.