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How important is it that its a purebred?

For me, temp/ability/conformation and what stock its producing would be far more important than whether it was pink papered and branded.

How important is that to you? Thinking of the Grafham studs stallions, not one is purebred.
 
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For me, temp/ability/conformation and what stock its producing would be far more important than whether it was pink papered and branded.

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My opinion exactly! Good bloodlines are usually good for a reason but I'd be just as happy if a horses parents had a fantastic temperment (imo the most important factor) then good conformation and potential (i.e. sucessful parents)
 
Well in your natives and arabs and that, very important obviously to be registered and shown, but for your sport horses, purebred is last thing on my mind....think you would struggle to find any pure breds on the circuit really!!
 
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How important is it that its a purebred?

For me, temp/ability/conformation and what stock its producing would be far more important than whether it was pink papered and branded.



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You've hit the nail on the head haven't you?

If you're breeding for racing then you haven't any choice but to use TBs but for anything else it has to be personal preference. My criteria is the same as yours; I want them to be sane and sound enough to go out to do a job well whatever that might be - we all don't want competition/sport horses do we, there have to be others bred for uncompetitive people who just like a nice uncomplicated horse too ?
Saying that, I think it does help if the parentage can be verified through records and passports not just for the breeders but the owners too. Look how many people just on here ask about the parantage of their horses or use allbreedspedigree to try to trace back. It is human nature to be pleased if there is a connection - however distant - between their horse and a successful one too! It also helps us know which ones to avoid at all costs too!
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For me, temp/ability/conformation and what stock its producing would be far more important than whether it was pink papered and branded.



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Now I would use a purebred for exactly those reasons. The problem with only knowing a bit about breeding is you can only look at the parents temp/ability/conf etc. If the horse is pink papered you can go back and check those attribites in all the horses ancestors as well.

However I would not rule out breeding just because a bit of history was missing, if everythign else was good!
 
Oh I wasn't talking about if bits were missing, just crossbreds, all parentage and bloodlines were available though.

You know, instead of using a purebred ID, it was ID x TB but bloodlines on both side were availble.
 
For me it would depend on the mare.
If a mare was heinz 57 then i would always go pure bred but if the mare was pretty much pure bred then a part bred stallion would be fine.
There wouldnt be too much in the mix then to throw up any surprises .
 
When breeding to a type as opposed to a breed standard such as our native breeds, then to me weather it is pure bred or not.

My unknown breeding mare is going to a pure bred stallion, I would like a sports/competition pony at the end, and regardless of breeding both parents are a very good stamp of the type we desire
 
OK fair enough I see what you mean and agree but then I'm a warmblood person and they are really a type anyway rather than a breed! I think a good IDxTB cross is very gard to beat!
 
pure bred isnt that important.
however to me temperment,gradings and bloodlines are important as it can help you decide how good a match the mare and stallion are.
i would always choose a stallion who was graded and whos youngstock were consistantly the type i wanted OUT OF THE SAME TYPE OF MARE AS MY OWN.
 
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