I don’t think you understand the TB industry as well as you think you do.
Yes, breeders do, in this case, have a “focus” on minimizing inbreeding. That’s one reason why Rich Strike is very unlikely to get quality mares. You seem not to understand the difference between having linebred horses and a stallion that is 2x3 to Smart Strike.
Why the sire and dam of Rich Strike were even mated is a mystery to me.
Has anyone gone back and done that same pairing again since his Derby win, just to see if lightning might strike twice?
Whether he is worth breeding or not is debatable, but the cross did produce a competitive race horse. You can argue about his race record if you would like, but it isn’t like he is a claimer at Charlestown.
True.
I still wonder about the reasoning behind the decision to breed his sire to his dam.
bingo
Its Linebreeding if it works. Inbreeding if it doesn’t.
It worked; it’s linebreeding.
Not 2X3. It’s too close up and it’s usually not done.
We understand that, in a perfect world, this breeding wouldn’t have happened. It did, and he was a successful race horse at a high level. Is that a bad thing? It isn’t like hes got five legs and three ears. It just means that this is not textbook breeding.
No it’s not bad per se. My point is that he won’t get quality mares in Kentucky because of it, and that’s one of the reasons he’s not going to stand in Kentucky.
I think that he’d make a great gelding at this point.
I don’t care if its usually not done. At the end of the day; it worked and it produced a good racehorse: It is linebreeding. This level of linebreeding is done as badly or much worse in other animal worlds to produce superior offspring.
He is never going to get the level of financial stud deal his greedy ownership is looking for. So at this point; I don’t expect him to get any lucrative offers anytime soon.
They needed mares for Keen Ice’s first book is all I can think of, which is no less logical than a lot of things they’ve done.
The whole if it works it is line breeding saying is supposed to be a joke. That isn’t how you judge the difference between inbreeding and line breeding in reality.
well duh. But there is no denying there is truth to it. If there was no truth to it you wouldn’t see the amount of inbreeding (AKA Linebreeding) in these TB’s of today within 5 generations. Much of it was just as bad as Rich Strike, if not worse, at the time the cross was made.
Inbreeding and linebreeding are two different concepts–and not interchangeable.
2x3 is inbreeding, no matter how successful the outcome might be.
4x4, 4x5, or 5x5 is linebreeding.
There actually is 100% denying the truth of it because there is no truth to it. Much like every other joke on any subject
In this case it is inbreeding, not linebreeding. The fact that the horse won races doesn’t change that.
He never was going to get any “lucrative offers” from any stud in Kentucky and one reason is his 2x3 inbreeding to Smart Strike.
Especially when there are other, more physically impressive stallions from the Smart Strike-Curlin line standing, but without the inbreeding.
Yes, there’s no shortage of Smart Strike blood. He’s had several stallion sons, and Cody’s Wish is coming to stud, by Curlin.
I didn’t realize that Good Magic’s fee was so high. 125K
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