Oh they are all related somewhere! I train for a TB rescue / rehab and they all seem to haveNative Dancer in there or Hyperion - Nasrullah - Nearco.... if I have 5 horses in training - I have fun looking at their pedigrees and saying - he is his half nephew and those tow are second cousins... etc etc - hee hee. Sometimes the way I can tell a horse was better bred is to see that the sire and dam were winning horses themselves... but truth is, as riding horses, you gotta go by the horse on his own conformation, mind and merit in general.
For instance, I helped a barn liquidate their horses - they tended to breed anythign to anything - yes, there were big names in the pedigrees but you coudl tell by looking at the record that a lot of the horses were young when bred and down a series of generations - doing some checking - a horse woudl blow out an ankle and never do much at the track but because he had some Native Dancer in there and some something else, he was taken back and bred to everything though he really never amounted to much and then his offspring sent to train with cheapie trainers and broke down fast adn then sent hoem to be bred and bred - nothing careful and there I was - trying to place some TBs that are the type that sort of stay "green forever" and too dangerous for most horsepeople to handle and not worth the effort for most experienced horse people. So, of course, I bougth two of them (I am a sucker - they were very pretty to look at).
Anyone want to share their dosage for their horse and describe what kind fo a worker they are - if they are physically really strong, agile and have good endurance? BE HONEST! It woudl be interesting to see if the thoughts on dosage are real.
Speedy has a very very low dosage - one woudl like for a stakes winner type. My two mares have a high dosage and they both are athletic and terrific but they are nto as physically strong as Speedy. Also, Speedy was given so many chances as a racer and sold for a lot of money and never raced in cheapie races - he did go in some claimers in the end but everything was a high dollar claimer (he hurt his shoulder and after that never raced as well as he had). The two mares were tested and never raced. So I woudl think the dosage did reflect their performance as a racehorse. I have a 17.3 TB in training and though he woudl make a fabulous A hunter - he is not as agile and powerful as Speedy - not even close so I want to look up his pedigree and see - I am goignt o bet it is high.
For instance, I helped a barn liquidate their horses - they tended to breed anythign to anything - yes, there were big names in the pedigrees but you coudl tell by looking at the record that a lot of the horses were young when bred and down a series of generations - doing some checking - a horse woudl blow out an ankle and never do much at the track but because he had some Native Dancer in there and some something else, he was taken back and bred to everything though he really never amounted to much and then his offspring sent to train with cheapie trainers and broke down fast adn then sent hoem to be bred and bred - nothing careful and there I was - trying to place some TBs that are the type that sort of stay "green forever" and too dangerous for most horsepeople to handle and not worth the effort for most experienced horse people. So, of course, I bougth two of them (I am a sucker - they were very pretty to look at).
Anyone want to share their dosage for their horse and describe what kind fo a worker they are - if they are physically really strong, agile and have good endurance? BE HONEST! It woudl be interesting to see if the thoughts on dosage are real.
Speedy has a very very low dosage - one woudl like for a stakes winner type. My two mares have a high dosage and they both are athletic and terrific but they are nto as physically strong as Speedy. Also, Speedy was given so many chances as a racer and sold for a lot of money and never raced in cheapie races - he did go in some claimers in the end but everything was a high dollar claimer (he hurt his shoulder and after that never raced as well as he had). The two mares were tested and never raced. So I woudl think the dosage did reflect their performance as a racehorse. I have a 17.3 TB in training and though he woudl make a fabulous A hunter - he is not as agile and powerful as Speedy - not even close so I want to look up his pedigree and see - I am goignt o bet it is high.
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