If you had a mare, who would you want to mount your mare, Curlin or Big Brown or Smarty Jones or Invasor?

Question

If you had a mare, who would you want to mount your mare, Curlin or Big Brown or Smarty Jones or Invasor

Answer 1

It would be Smarty Jones for me--there's a true winner!

Answer 2

curlin

Answer 3

Invasor easily.  He was a really world class racehorse.  He could go anywhere and beat anyone.  And he was such a cute horse too... his color was beautiful and his facial features were perfect.

And the correct term would be "cover" not "mount" although you got the point across ;o)  When you're choosing a horse to breed your mare to, you say that I want that stallion to cover my mare.

Answer 4

curlin and smarty jones are not proven yet  big brown is not in stud yet so i would have to go with secretariat he was a tremendous machine

what i mean by proven i mean proven by foals on the ground and horses winning races

Answer 5

The mare's bloodline would dictate which stallion she went to, if any. Breed for a great breeding stallion and the worst thing you can get is a luxury gelding. Breed for 'cute' and you get a pasture ornament. Those long ears or slightly roman nose look pretty good going under the wire first. Breed for good bone and sturdy hooves and nice flat knees.

Answer 6

POINT GIVEN (that horse was a machine)

Answer 7

As of right now - Invasor.

Possibly Smarty Jones if I had one heck of a mare.

If Big Brown continues to prove himself, he'd move to the top. I would want to see how he does a little bit more before I bred my mare to him, if I had a mare. =]

Answer 8

First you have to research your mare's pedigree and learn her ancestors positives and negatives, as well as the positive and negatives of the mare herself.  Breeding is an attempt to keep and strengthen the positive, while compensating for the negatives.  Then you also have to know what the stallion in question as well as his ancestors, tended to produce.  Big winners aren't always big producers of winners, and some breedings just "click" meaning they tend to produce high quality offspring while other breedings seem to produce the worst of both parents.  Two brothers may produce very differently, even bred to the same female, and vice versa.

Personally I think race horse bloodlines are WAY too concentrated on Native Dancer, after studying pedigrees of horses that have broken down in racing.  The one thing they all have in common is linebreeding on Native Dancer, and I've read expert quotes "Native Dancer's line has a tragic flaw. Thanks in part to heavily muscled legs and a violent, herky-jerky running style, Native Dancer and his descendants have had trouble with their feet. Injuries have cut short the careers of several of his most famous kin, most notably Barbaro, a great-great-great-grandson who was injured during the Preakness Stakes and was later put to death.'

Eight Belles, Chelokee (who was injured May 2 during the running of the Alysheba Stakes) and Ruffian along with Barbado all show much common ancestry.  Chelokee and Eight Belles pedigrees show them to be quite closely related.

So preferably, I would want to breed my mare to a good racehorse that didn't have the common Native Dancer descendants in the pedigree, that all these horses are linebred on.