Once cross bred, always a cross breed?

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Sort of a follow on from the coloured TB thread. I was just wondering if you thought that once a cross bred, always a cross bred. Or would after it being diluted enough you would ignore it, per se?

For example, my TB's sire was 7/8 TB and her dam pure TB, making her 15/16 Tb if my maths is right! :p I always find it easier to just say that she is a pure TB and if asked about her colouring then I say that she was crossed with something way down the line. If she's rugged up no one questions her breed so its clearly the colour that throws people, not her build. :o

So do any of you have one that has a little bit of something else in but you still consider pure or is it still a cross in your eyes?
 
Umm... I had a tb, good racing lines and within the lines there's the odd carthorse, appy and a friesian (sp) if I remember correctly.

He is slightly bigger then most tbs good shoulders and a fair bit of bone. All of his lines have raced, in fact he is the first for 6generations that hasn't been on the track.

The other blood stops around 7-8generations back. He does however have the odd black spot on his chestnut body, which I believe dates back to one appy sire
 
I suppose for the die-hard breeders out there, a horse that is cross bred , no matter how far down the ages can never reproduce a pure bred animal. That horse will always have a percentage of another breed in it , even if after a while it is so diluted , it'll still not be a pure bred , even if it's down to 1%
 
There are some weird rules around too, like shires can be shires officially even with 1/4 clydesdale, and (i think that) welshes C and Ds can move across the sections if their heights are more appropriate to another. I find it strangr, but as you do, if I owned your horse I would tell people she is a tb :)
 
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There are some weird rules around too, like shires can be shires officially even with 1/4 clydesdale, and (i think that) welshes C and Ds can move across the sections if their heights are more appropriate to another. I find it strangr, but as you do, if I owned your horse I would tell people she is a tb :)
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ahhh now that is interesting, i was looking at my pb-welshs' pedigree a while back and noticed that about 5 generations back there are AxB's whose progeny have been registered as B's, was wondering how that could be but if they can move section then that explains it. oh and he's not PB because of that, he's got some TB in there as well;)
 
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