Monday, February 15, 2010

The dam factor...

Peppy & Molly
Theese are my thoughts on the damside of a studs pedigree and why I choose the studs I do.

I truly believe the dam accounts for apr. 2/3 of the offsprings success. Why? The importance of the mares contribution is underestimated and the key in my opinion, to breeding a foal with the inherant traits for future success is, of course, determined by both the dam and studs pedigree and the proven caharacteristics that are present in their DNA. But the mental makeup of the mare shapes the foal during the entire course of it´s life until weaning. Conformation, movement, temperament and trainability are all highly heritable but since the stud alway´s pass on one set of chromosmes from it´s mother but not alway´s one from daddy, the studs damside in my opinion matters more than the topside.

Another aspect is the fact that a stallion can have hundreds of offspring in a season, but a mare usually is limited to one shot a year to leave a mark. The topside of a pedigree usually is loaded with performers and great athletes, otherwise they wouldn´t be sires, but the damside is usually overlooked.

Conclusion:
I want my studs to be loaded on the bottom. From a line that has constantly produces great horses, not limited to performers, but good or great individuals. Ofcourse they have to compliment my mare and if possible ad too her, but it´s alot easier to enhance the good qualitys than it is to overcome a deficiency, Ex. You´ll probably not get a 15 hand horse if you breed your 14 hand mare to a 16 hand stud. But if you breed your great hocked mare to a stud with equally impressive hocks, 9 times outa 10 your offspring also will posess that trait.
Justa Bita Pep
So to analyze my most recent choice: I have a "Little Peppy"/Smart Little Lena bred mare with Poco Tivio and running blood mixed with King, and King Ranch Old Sorrel blood on the bottom. She´s 14.3 or there abouts. Good withers, nice, clean neck. Good croup, hocks and muscling. She could use better bone, nothing major but still. Her feet are good but she is a bit thin soled. She´s a little reserved with integrity, as a lot of Little Peppys. She´s extremely athletic and has all of the moves wich she passes along to her babies. Since I aim to raise cowhorses with potential in the arena, I need the stud to also be athletic and with all the other possitive atributes of my mare. Then I start looking for things that might impove my mares deficiences.
Peeka Pep
So what I found was the stud Peeka Pep, of partly the same breeding as my mare with Peptoboonsmal (Peppy San Badger)on Peek A Boon, a Smart Little Lena mare. Now, what to me is intriguing is that the Peeka Peps 2nd dam is Royal Blue Boon who also happens to be Peptoboonsmals dam, thus doubling Royal Blue Boons influence! Now, I admit this is cutting it pretty close, but If you are careful, and know what you´re doing you have created a genepool wich to draw from for generations. What Peeka Pep brings to the equation (he has 2 crops of performance age, 2 Futury Finalists and a bunch of other limited age event finalists from only 45 horses.) is good withers, good neck, croup, hocks, very defined muscling, nice strong back and a very good trainable mind! In essence I´ve multiplied the mares good traits and hopefully improve some in areas she´s lacking, namely really good bone and feet.
This is what the pedigree would look like

Theoretically, each mature reproductive cell carries a gene for every inheritable characteristic (the progeny receives a set of genes from each of its parents). Therefore, when a breeding horse has even one pair of chromosomes matched, the consistency of that type produced in its foals increases, notably! As the number of matched pairs of chromosomes in a breeding horse increases, so does the uniformity of foals produced! Note: The same is true for unwanted traits! so you have to cull every individual who display´s these negative traits!

In my opinion this inbreeding, if closely watched, might strengthen the offsprings ability to produce desirable traits. For me it ends here though, and next generation will be an outcross, but with an individual who posess the same possitive traits as above and a strong damside.

Below is a presentation of the leading cutting dams to date. Cutting bred horses seem to dominate the three major disciplines, cutting, cowhorse and reining so that´s where I look for stud prospects.
Royal Blue Boon
Top Cutting dams

Rank Horse # of performers Average Total

1. ROYAL BLUE BOON 17 $153,688 $2,612,701
Red White And Boon, $922,063; Bet Yer Blue Boons, $350,615; Autumn Boon, $258,185; Duals Blue Boon, $197,449; Peptoboonsmal, $180,487; Peppys From Heaven, $142,956; Royal Red Boon (DNA), $126,454; TH Royal Red Peppy, $122,800; Royal Blue Dually, $86,394; Peek A Boon, $81,143; November Dove, $77,339; Smartest Little Lena, $29,943; Mecom Blue, $19,071; Laredo Roan, $8,289; Dualin Boonjos, $4,838

2. PLAYBOYS RUBY 12 $132,055 $1,584,659
Jack Ruby (DNA), $257,779; Little Janey Lena, $234,855; Playin CDs, $216,931; Ruby Tuesday DNA, $216,416; Smart Little Jerry, $197,389; Ruby Bagonia, $114,255; Ruby Doo Too, $108,617; CD Grumpy Doc, $93,441; Ruby Dee Dna, $82,891; Ruby Red Cat, $37,858; KR Ravishing Ruby, $16,669; Ruby Reyn, $7,558

3. LANEY DOC 17 $85,527 $1,453,951
Cat Ichi, $306,191; Four Acres, $259,032; Laker Doc, $183,323; Meradas Dee Jay, $159,860; Goran, $142,576; Kodo, $101,925; Laney Rey Too, $96,853; Laney O Lena, $48,622; Tracker Jones, $35,045; Monarcat, $33,506; Laneys Hick, $25,669; Hava Dock Rocker, $21,567; Yaega, $13,912; Catalaney, $11,126; Sooner Or Laney, $9,340

4. JAZABELL QUIXOTE 25 $49,587 $1,239,669
July Jazz, $302,523; Smart Lil Jazalena, $145,809; Royal Serena Belle, $124,196; Jazzy Joe Lena, $116,877; Jazzy Little Giant, $99,711; Hickoryote, $81,946; WSR Jazz Em Up, $66,173; Dual Jazz, $60,371; Docs All That Jazz, $39,692; Cyrano De Jazarac, $35,673; Beau Jazz, $27,950; Jazzy Starlena, $25,731; Jazzy Lynn, $22,641; Sons Royal Jazabell, $19,987; Play Some Jazz, $15,659

5. LYNX MELODY 16 $75,857 $1,213,719
Shania Cee, $406,697; Cattin, $137,811; Sneakin Cee, $135,542; Crackin, $133,084; Shinin Melody, $70,975; Melody Lena, $60,642; Little Peppy Cee, $55,541; Docs Accident, $51,491; A Peppys Melody, $39,911; Martina Cee, $36,534; Sweet Swingin Melody, $33,479; Snappin Cee, $20,652; Shakin Cee, $16,064; Swingin, $14,875; Twistin Cee, $219

6. THE SMART LOOK 12 $96,594 $1,159,129
Dual Smart Rey, $330,436; WR This Cats Smart, $236,474; One Smart Lookin Cat, $226,122; Smart Lookin Hi Brow, $221,929; WR Smart Hickory, $68,022; SDP Looky Lue, $22,918; Dual Smart Pep, $17,717; WR Smart N Hickory, $16,357; WR Smart Lookin Dot, $15,241; Lookin Up High, $3,413; Smart Look N Pepto, $280; Look At That Look, $220

7. SMART PEPPY 9 $128,196 $1,153,762
Smart Little Lena, $743,275; Smart Peppy Doc, $120,537; Oh How Smart, $119,779; Ill Be Smart, $77,739; Dox Smart Chance, $53,217; Dox Cow Smart, $23,883; Smart Hickory, $10,298; Smart Peppy Lena, $3,504; Sevens Tari Pep, $1,528

8. THAT SMARTS 12 $90,929 $1,091,154
Pappion Cat, $379,815; That Cool Cat, $241,724; A Hocus Pocus Cat, $166,568; That Sly Cat, $104,893; That Catomine, $93,851; All That N Cat, $50,265; That Smarty Cat, $16,147; Cat Smarts, $14,536; That Red Feather, $14,190; Red Like That, $8,422; Thatl Do Cat, $624; That Pretty Boy, $119

9. BOON SAN SALLY 14 $76,536 $1,071,503
Boon San Kitty, $555,504; RW Sallycat, $143,731; Boon San Lena, $120,966; Shorty San Lena, $56,857; Boon San, $55,562; Boon San Cat, $50,505; Smart Little Sally, $46,983; Boon San Sam, $22,345; Boon San Sal, $6,769; Ristoboon (DNA), $4,861; Boon San Acre, $4,826; Boons Merada, $1,760; Mr San Sally, $432; Sweet Sally San, $401

10. AUTUMN BOON 15 $68,089 $1,021,334
Im Countin Checks, $514,757; Boon A Little, $122,245; Wild Thing DNA, $109,061; Absolutely Stunning, $107,877; Boogie Boon, $49,198; Picante Boon, $18,821; Awesome Autumn, $18,475; Royal Blue Autumn, $17,682; Blue Autumn Baby, $15,463; Little Autumn DNA, $14,335; Lil Autumn Splendor, $11,294; Bedevil, $9,426; U Wanna Play, $8,948; Autumn Dual, $3,589; Autumn Blue, $163

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