A Breeding Question
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Emma Lochran
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Black Condor got me thinking about distances, and how they mix in the sim. Say you breed BC to a turf sprinter, would you get a middle distance type? Or maybe a really fast longer distance type? Or would it just not work? I realize there are many variables, but lets say the bloodlines would be a good match. I'm really just wondering what some of you long time breeders have found out.
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Alysse Peverell
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Ara Davies
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In the few cases you find where it does work, it's usually because one of the parents was actually surface/distance versatile. Storm Cat is a good example of this since he's produced sprinters (like the Sideways Glance descendants) and stayers (like the Rain Dancer descendants).
Generally breeding a sprinter to a stayer is only going to give you a horse who is too slow to sprint and doesn't have the stamina for a route.
Generally breeding a sprinter to a stayer is only going to give you a horse who is too slow to sprint and doesn't have the stamina for a route.
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Laura Ferguson
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In my opinion, you waste $150k by breeding a turf sprinter to Black Condor. Even if you hit the rare situation described by Ara (and there are a few instances where you might get a good horse because of that distance/surface versatility), I'll maintain that you could have had a _better_ horse if you'd bred to the mare's strength. Meaning, yeah you had a stakes winner breeding to Black Condor, but you could have had a champion had you bred to a turf sprinter that matched up well, pedigree-wise. Toss in the fact that the highest-priced turf sprint stallion stands for $100k, Guitar, and others stand for less than six figures, odds are that you could have had a much better foal for 1/2 to 2/3 the cost of breeding a Black Condor baby, and it becomes a no-brainer.
That said, for the four open slots, you can breed whomever you want to Black Condor, it's your dime (or however many of them equal $150k
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Laura
That said, for the four open slots, you can breed whomever you want to Black Condor, it's your dime (or however many of them equal $150k
), but when I spend the big bucks to breed a mare to a high-priced stallion, I want to do my best to end up with a foal that has a legitimate shot of eventually earning back that stud fee on the track. Hope that helps!Laura
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Emma Lochran
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I really did mean in general.