Peppy & MollyTheese 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 PepSo 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 PepSo 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 likeTheoretically, 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 BoonTop Cutting dams |
| Rank Horse # of performers Average Total 1. ROYAL BLUE BOON 17 $153,688 $2,612,701 2. PLAYBOYS RUBY 12 $132,055 $1,584,659 3. LANEY DOC 17 $85,527 $1,453,951 4. JAZABELL QUIXOTE 25 $49,587 $1,239,669 5. LYNX MELODY 16 $75,857 $1,213,719 6. THE SMART LOOK 12 $96,594 $1,159,129 7. SMART PEPPY 9 $128,196 $1,153,762 8. THAT SMARTS 12 $90,929 $1,091,154 9. BOON SAN SALLY 14 $76,536 $1,071,503 10. AUTUMN BOON 15 $68,089 $1,021,334 |
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