Information for Le' Grand ♦बड़ा♦

[Grand Prix]

Competition Name Stats Evaluated
Barrel Racing: Agility, Speed, Strength, Balance
Cross Country: Stamina, Strength, Agility, Balance
Cutting: Agility, Intelligence, Strength, Speed
Dressage: Movement, Balance, Tempo, Strength
Driven Dressage: Movement, Balance, Strength, Tempo
Endurance: Stamina, Speed, Agility, Tempo
Harness Racing: Speed, Stamina, Strength, Tempo
Hunter: Movement Strength, Tempo, Balance
In-Hand Jumping: Intelligence, Agility, Strength, Stamina
Log Pull: Strength, Stamina, Movement, Tempo #1 #2 #3
Marathon Driving: Strength, Stamina, Tempo, Intelligence
Obstacle Driving: Strength, Agility, Stamina, Balance
Pole Bending: Speed, Agility, Intelligence, Balance #1 #2 #3
Racing: Speed, Stamina, Strength, Speed
Reining Agility: Strength, Movement, Balance
Saddleseat: Balance, Agility, Movement, Intelligence
Show Jumping: Balance, Strength, Agility, Speed
Sprint Racing: Speed, Strength, Agility, Speed#1 #2 #3
Steeplechasing: Speed, Agility, Strength, Stamina
Western Pleasure: Intelligence, Balance, Movement, Tempo
Western Trail: Agility, Balance, Intelligence, Stamina
Working Ranch: Intelligence, Agility, Balance, Strength

Title Points Needed
Champion - 200 Points
Grand Champion - 700 Points
Master Champion - 1,500 Points
Master Grand Champion - 3,000 Points
Supreme Champion - 4,900
Supreme Grand Champion - 7,300
Supreme Master Grand Champion - 10,000

Temperaments Needed For Each Competition
high Strung:
Racing
Sprint Racing
Steeplechase
Harness Racing

Spirited:
Pole Bending
Barrel Racing
Driven Dressage

Even:
Cutting
Hunter
Show Jumping
Reining
Cross Country
Obstacle Driving
Marathon Driving

Calm:
Working Ranch
Dressage
Saddle seat

Bombproof:
Log Pull
Western Pleasure
Western Trail
Endurance

Information about the feeds
Fiber: High fiber is very important to keep your horse healthy. If they are not fed enough fiber they could suffer from colic which is very dangerous.
Protein: High protein is required for very fit horses to maintaing their fitness, but protein is expensive.
Sugar: Sugar can make horses hyper (increase their Temperament), which is benefitial for some competitions (like racing), but bad for others (like dressage). Sugar is cheap though so its an easy way to get a lot of energy while training.


Feeds That Will Help You In Competitions
Discipline: Ideal Body Condition Score
English Disciplines
Cross Country: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Dressage: 5 (Moderate) to 6 (Moderately Fleshy)
Hunter: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Saddleseat: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Show Jumping: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
In-hand Jumping: 4 (Moderately Thin)

Western Disciplines

Barrel Racing: 5 (Moderate) to 6 (Moderately Fleshy)
Cutting: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Pole Bending: 5 (Moderate)
Reining: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Western Pleasure: 5 (Moderate)
Western Trail: 5 (Moderate)
Working Ranch: 5 (Moderate)

Racing Disciplines

Racing: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Spring Racing: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Steeplechasing: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Endurance: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Harness Racing: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)

Driving Disciplines

Driven Dressage: 5 (Moderate)
Log Pull: 5 (Moderate) to 6 (Moderately Fleshy)
Marathon Driving: 5 (Moderate)
Obstacle Driving: 5 (Moderate)

Training Guide
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6285

Keep in mind that sometimes an awful performer creates the best offspring.

Mares should be the ones to 'carry' your bloodline, because they're the weaker gender, thus the best mares will always be 'less-than' the stallions. Or should be. If you find you have really impressive mares and lack the impressive studs, you're doing (still) the more important thing right.
A weak mare can kill your bloodline if bred too many times and too many poor foals are kept, but a poor stud usually has a stronger foal-cull rate because people generally look at a 'replacement colt' for him.
It's a very fine line, balancing good genes and good production.

You are a couple generations out from the last ones that were officially comp-tested on her. The other thing that will EASILY kill a bloodline and produce nothing but 'prettily papered' stock, is by accidentally breeding out the heart gene, the 'will to win'.
If you suspect you're going to use her as a breeder, you should test her heart to see if you want a lot of foals from her (strong heart genes to pass on) or maybe just one or two, to help keep her positive genes in your herd, but weed out the negative ones (the missing or weakened heart).
However... you don't necessarily have to train in order to test heart. Although, training will make the record much more uniform and easier to read.

Once you've established that you're still working with good heart genes, then every second generation or third generation is all that's really needed to check to make sure your heart genes remain stable.

This is what we risk when we breed out to unknown bloodlines, OR when we use our own unknown bloodlines and breed into confirmed stock.

I'm also one to test... pretty much everything. Since you've looked at my competition stock, if you had looked at the pedigrees, you should've noticed that most of them for a LOT of generations are titled at least to champion. That's not because I choose to title them, that's because each one is tested. A lot of them, well I suppose with very few exceptions, all of them, will earn their first champion title in somewhere under 30 entries.
The only ones that I push to the top and end up getting supreme and so on, titles are ones that have extremely high WPS and are extremely competitive, showing very strong heart genes.

So, that's where I'm at.
-BlackOak2

[FantasyRanch3]

]Competition Name Stats Evaluated
Barrel Racing: Agility, Speed, Strength, Balance
Cross Country: Stamina, Strength, Agility, Balance
Cutting: Agility, Intelligence, Strength, Speed
Dressage: Movement, Balance, Tempo, Strength
Driven Dressage: Movement, Balance, Strength, Tempo
Endurance: Stamina, Speed, Agility, Tempo
Harness Racing: Speed, Stamina, Strength, Tempo
Hunter: Movement Strength, Tempo, Balance
In-Hand Jumping: Intelligence, Agility, Strength, Stamina
Log Pull: Strength, Stamina, Movement, Tempo #1 #2 #3
Marathon Driving: Strength, Stamina, Tempo, Intelligence
Obstacle Driving: Strength, Agility, Stamina, Balance
Pole Bending: Speed, Agility, Intelligence, Balance #1 #2 #3
Racing: Speed, Stamina, Strength, Speed
Reining Agility: Strength, Movement, Balance
Saddleseat: Balance, Agility, Movement, Intelligence
Show Jumping: Balance, Strength, Agility, Speed
Sprint Racing: Speed, Strength, Agility, Speed#1 #2 #3
Steeplechasing: Speed, Agility, Strength, Stamina
Western Pleasure: Intelligence, Balance, Movement, Tempo
Western Trail: Agility, Balance, Intelligence, Stamina
Working Ranch: Intelligence, Agility, Balance, Strength

Title Points Needed
Champion - 200 Points
Grand Champion - 700 Points
Master Champion - 1,500 Points
Master Grand Champion - 3,000 Points
Supreme Champion - 4,900
Supreme Grand Champion - 7,300
Supreme Master Grand Champion - 10,000

Temperaments Needed For Each Competition
high Strung:
Racing
Sprint Racing
Steeplechase
Harness Racing

Spirited:
Pole Bending
Barrel Racing
Driven Dressage

Even:
Cutting
Hunter
Show Jumping
Reining
Cross Country
Obstacle Driving
Marathon Driving

Calm:
Working Ranch
Dressage
Saddle seat

Bombproof:
Log Pull
Western Pleasure
Western Trail
Endurance

Information about the feeds
Fiber: High fiber is very important to keep your horse healthy. If they are not fed enough fiber they could suffer from colic which is very dangerous.
Protein: High protein is required for very fit horses to maintaing their fitness, but protein is expensive.
Sugar: Sugar can make horses hyper (increase their Temperament), which is benefitial for some competitions (like racing), but bad for others (like dressage). Sugar is cheap though so its an easy way to get a lot of energy while training.


Feeds That Will Help You In Competitions
Discipline: Ideal Body Condition Score
English Disciplines
Cross Country: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Dressage: 5 (Moderate) to 6 (Moderately Fleshy)
Hunter: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Saddleseat: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Show Jumping: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
In-hand Jumping: 4 (Moderately Thin)

Western Disciplines

Barrel Racing: 5 (Moderate) to 6 (Moderately Fleshy)
Cutting: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Pole Bending: 5 (Moderate)
Reining: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Western Pleasure: 5 (Moderate)
Western Trail: 5 (Moderate)
Working Ranch: 5 (Moderate)

Racing Disciplines

Racing: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Spring Racing: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Steeplechasing: 4 (Moderately Thin) to 5 (Moderate)
Endurance: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)
Harness Racing: 3 (Thin) to 4 (Moderately Thin)

Driving Disciplines

Driven Dressage: 5 (Moderate)
Log Pull: 5 (Moderate) to 6 (Moderately Fleshy)
Marathon Driving: 5 (Moderate)
Obstacle Driving: 5 (Moderate)

Training Guide
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6285

Keep in mind that sometimes an awful performer creates the best offspring.

Mares should be the ones to 'carry' your bloodline, because they're the weaker gender, thus the best mares will always be 'less-than' the stallions. Or should be. If you find you have really impressive mares and lack the impressive studs, you're doing (still) the more important thing right.
A weak mare can kill your bloodline if bred too many times and too many poor foals are kept, but a poor stud usually has a stronger foal-cull rate because people generally look at a 'replacement colt' for him.
It's a very fine line, balancing good genes and good production.

You are a couple generations out from the last ones that were officially comp-tested on her. The other thing that will EASILY kill a bloodline and produce nothing but 'prettily papered' stock, is by accidentally breeding out the heart gene, the 'will to win'.
If you suspect you're going to use her as a breeder, you should test her heart to see if you want a lot of foals from her (strong heart genes to pass on) or maybe just one or two, to help keep her positive genes in your herd, but weed out the negative ones (the missing or weakened heart).
However... you don't necessarily have to train in order to test heart. Although, training will make the record much more uniform and easier to read.

Once you've established that you're still working with good heart genes, then every second generation or third generation is all that's really needed to check to make sure your heart genes remain stable.

This is what we risk when we breed out to unknown bloodlines, OR when we use our own unknown bloodlines and breed into confirmed stock.

I'm also one to test... pretty much everything. Since you've looked at my competition stock, if you had looked at the pedigrees, you should've noticed that most of them for a LOT of generations are titled at least to champion. That's not because I choose to title them, that's because each one is tested. A lot of them, well I suppose with very few exceptions, all of them, will earn their first champion title in somewhere under 30 entries.
The only ones that I push to the top and end up getting supreme and so on, titles are ones that have extremely high WPS and are extremely competitive, showing very strong heart genes.

So, that's where I'm at.
-BlackOak2[/quote]