http://broodmaresinc.com/clustermares/ Horse Breeding by Design Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:05:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://broodmaresinc.com/clustermares/#comment-3963 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:31:15 +0000 http://broodmaresinc.com/?p=1#comment-3963 “I believe in gene replenishment,” he began. “That means I don’t believe an outstanding mare will necessarily produce outstanding daughters. Why? Because half of that outstanding mare’s genes are wiped out in her daughter! “Sure, we’ve all heard of someone getting a superior runner out of a ‘nothing’ mare. The word ‘nothing( is totally Inappropriate. What really happened is the genes of an outstanding mare somewhere back in the pedigree were finally replenished with the correct cross or nick, . As a matter of fact few outstanding sires came from Blenheirn II. These are however broodmare Lines which did interest me. Quite frankly, I couldn’t care less about a sire’s racing ability. It just isn’t that important if I can see the necessary broodmare lines.”

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