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Maybe it's my growing up in the TB industry talking with some of this, but for someone screaming about outcrossing, I cant believe how you cant see some of the problems with all of this.


I don't see the correlation. Not from my thinking anyway. If I find a stallion that I just have to breed a mare to, it wouldn't matter if he was an outcross or not, or if he was the hottest stallion out there, or sitting out in the middle of nowhere in someone's backyard. I believe that the kind of quality I value is rare. If I can get to him no matter who he is or where he is, I will. I have never chosen a horse or stallion for the price or the stud fee, the location, his popularity or any of that. I've seen too many failed offspring of popular stallions to flock to that way of thinking. To me, those who continually utilize the "hot" stallions are the ones responsible for any saturation of bloodlines. They are the ones who aren't thinking "outside the box". It's easier to just follow the money than to do the work to create something different.