I thought somebody posted an early Christmas present…
Whoopee… excitement of opening New Zealand Bloodstock thoroughbred sale catalogue(s) with the cheer and much hope of what might be. *sigh*
But after that initial joy, there is business & despite happy marketing talk many ‘sales’ are down whilst entries increase.
At purchasing, there is a mountain of discernment taking place; selective criteria is at boot-camp-Strict.
Camp Strict meets Beauty-in-the-Eye which is ‘right’ and which is ‘wrong’, the ‘good-type’, bad and the ugly coming from strongly opinionated persons – all have some truth at sale-time!
Ironically…it seems more you know – one is to find yet one more lesson! You never stop learning!
What’s it all about Alfie….geez Wayne…are you for ‘real’….
Anyway… at TBL, I urge people to stay dedicated. The ’cause’ is the horse, for the ‘better’ superior racing horse and that folks, is the ground-approach towards deciphering any pedigree with a TBL mind set.
There is no fashion here, theory yes, but the skill how TBL scrutinizes for identifiable unidentifiable ‘strains’ within the female/maternal family is not mere fancy foot-work.
http://thethoroughbredlink.com/2016/07/15/tables-of-destiny-whats-my-line
Your Christmas read: Speed & the thoroughbred. The Complete History by Alexander Mackay Smith... for a rounded evolutionary process of the thoroughbred. This material suggests only 28% of the thoroughbred population hold the trait/strain which I supposition is the criteria we can pursue.
strains are ‘traits’ ancestral DNA
This is what TBL aims to source.
I hold true (and, stick-to-my-guns) that thoroughbreds must be bred, for a balance-of-traits.
The breeding person may normally think, okay, speed with turn-of-foot, stamina too. Performance records of dam. Sire. Type to type, or other.
Yes of course there are inheritable ‘truths’ but an unobvious desirable trait is also the said, purpose/function capability as a key-signature itself!
Slow down n’ Think….terms of efficiency, tempo, action all working together like a well-oiled machine.
The reasoning came about….when I realized there are many said highly-bred, well-bred horses with ability but if they do not have the all encompassed efficiency, they may still be minor-placed.
Over the forum, café-topics of current market-place(s) there are opinions at over-production; breeding as ‘numbers’ due to fashion market commerciality.
However, TBL also suggests it is deeper breeding at an imbalance of apropos breeding traits.
Remember the 3-leg stool?
Apropos is necessary to keep an animal (a thoroughbred), not for its racing existence, but for precisely at the core survival for the species itself. It is meta-vigorous.
Left to nature, we may notice her natural-selection but the ideas/philosophy/theory surrounding selective-breeding has incrementally & powerfully become workings too solely economic marketed & driven.
Thus sees a decline of enduring capacity & the idea of pure class, to endure as race-horse almost to measurable by de/re-classification of G.1 programmed races.
How often do you notice a horse at any sports-code – a horse doesn’t look ‘right’ for the job…and, you may comment “he would make a good jumper” perhaps because of his size, temperament.
Or from those fashionable terms: precocious, athletic, professional as smart two-year old only to develop with years on, more like a waggon-horse and run like one.
What really happened?
If we observe horses racing per movement moving there is space & time surreal, a split-second realization which is encountering the horses sensitivity within quantum-space versus our human perception fields.
Through the race, speed is inter-changeable upon pace and momentum as we notice horses can have faster sectionals at 600M than the winner itself and shall not win because of prior running-position. (yes, I know that’s obvious)
So what has speed?
Check high stamina upon high speed as output tempo.It is the differentiation, a factor which is cuttingly decisive above the rest.
But alongside, as ‘model’, as phenotype, must have that functional aero-dynamic frame to allow it high, easy, efficient momentum that it may attain powerful swiftness.
And that is what ‘we’ are to aim for…..at & within the pedigree analysis.
Essentially seek the breeder of the breeding thoroughbred, as those are the integral traits to tighten the pedigree down.
And the rest is a good eye, hard work and god’s plan….
Merry Christmas
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We appreciate usual convention is to chart a sire line, that of Savabeel and his sire Zabeel and the massive breeding sensations they are. Yet by viewing pedigrees sidelong, attention is thrusted to former sire’s of yesteryear which are undoubtedly ‘motioning’ potentcy of unknown quantities and in particular Success Express. ( folks, Roberto is another what impresses in pedigree lines)!
to Karaka NZ yearling sales. TBL takes much thought as many bloodstock people do: we are all searching through the ‘eyes-of-the-beholder’.
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