At our OHBS/GOV inspection this past weekend, a hunter breeder mentioned that she was thinking of dabbling in the hunter breeding classes. When she talked to her trainer about it, he told her to breed to “that Redwine stallion” so she would get a “black, blingy foal”. She had heard of the GFF situation, but when she tried to tell her trainer about it, he wasn’t interested - said he didn’t care about all that stuff, all he cared about was having a winning horse for the feed and lead classes (yes, that was his description of the hunter breeding classes).
It is going to be tough to counter that kind of mind-set amongst the hunter breeding handlers and trainers.