>>>> Why is that happening? Let's think about it and toss it around.
Probably because the breeding evaluations don't pay much attention to the traits that influence gait and long-term soundness. Some horses (any mammal actually) will do well at something DESPITE his/her conformaton, while others will be aided in skill BECAUSE of their conformation. However, the offspring will often inherit the fault, but not the traits that gave the "good trait" - which I guess would be gait in this case. I honestly haven't seen anything about the Icelandic evaluations that makes me thing anyone involves knows what traits influence gait...I mean, I could have knock-knees and be a brilliant physicist. That does not imply that if you breed me to another knock-kneed person, the result will be a prize-winning scientist...but the odds are fairly high the child would get knock-knees. Some traits just aren't related to other traits, while others are. Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.0/1296 - Release Date: 2/24/2008 12:19 PM
