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One of the problems from those compiling the ratings is that they start off from a rating for the race (from a par for it over the years?) On the one hand that’s sensible since the best horses will be running and they are fairly close together across the generations as a herd, on the other hand if you are mug enough to run a relative donkey in the race it will earn a rating that it can never match.

In the long term (very) selective breeding presumably means a gradual improvement across the generations, or is that too fanciful.

[QUOTE="barjon, post: 2696425, member: 66598"] One of the problems from those compiling the ratings is that they start off from a rating for the race (from a par for it over the years?) On the one hand that’s sensible since the best horses will be running and they are fairly close together across the generations as a herd, on the other hand if you are mug enough to run a relative donkey in the race it will earn a rating that it can never match. In the long term (very) selective breeding presumably means a gradual improvement across the generations, or is that too fanciful. [/QUOTE]

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