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Davis Moon Shine. Don’t know her HYPP status, but it’s a moot point. She’s a nice horse (sound, great disposition, nice mover, nice jumper) but not truly exceptional, so the only reason to breed her would be if her bloodlines were particularly sought after. (and then I’d still feel compelled to get some kind of show record on her first…!)
Jennifer[/QUOTE]
If you don’t know if she is N/N, the first indication you may have that she is after all N/H could be finding a dead horse one morning.:eek:
You need to know to, if she is not N/N but any kind of positive, start being proactive and keeping her on the appropriate diet so she won’t have attacks.
No, her lines are not sought after in any AQHA discipline, although they are some nicer horses in there, they seem to be far back.
Whatever she does well doesn’t mean she will pass it on necessarily because of her breeding, it is too mixed for that.
Now, there are middle of the road type activities that such horses do fine, where competition is not so much about inherited ability but training.
Any nicer horse can do well in those, especially a well trained, consistent horse.
The best cutting, western pleasure, racing, etc. specialist bred horse won’t have any advantage in those classes over any one other horse out there, other than good management, training and experience showing gives them.
Now, some of the ranch horses we bred were bred like that on purpose, to then see what we had with each one and have middle of the road type horses that most could handle and use.
Specialist horses tend to be more narrow in their abilities while great at what they were bred for.
You can also end up in a genetic bottleneck easily breeding for extremes.
Today, with so many horses out there, breeding the average horse is not necessary any more.
There are so many anyone can buy one already there and have a known quantity, not a guess of what one may be.
