1999 Cropout Overo Stallion
16 Hands, HYPP N/H OLWS Neg.
Excerpts of an article by Frank Holmes in the
2004 July issue of Horse & Rider, featuring GQ Santana as the most extreme
cropout stallion ever to be registered AQHA.
“Blurring The Line”
“ The fact
that these horses can earn points and awards in both associations will make
them more valuable than a single-registered horse”
An
interview with Gregg Reisinger of Eldora, Iowa. A well known and highly respected breeder of
cropout quarterhorses.
“Early on, I came to understand and appreciate the
quality and genetic strength of the cropout horse,” Reisinger says. I also
found that when I crossed two cropouts, I achieved a color success rate of more
than 90 percent”
Reisinger says the intensity of
Paint genetics may be misunderstood by some Quarter Horse breeders. “I can’t
speak directly to the AQHA rule change; that’s their business, not mine. I will
say that I’m doubtful whether the majority of Quarter Horse breeders fully
understand exactly how powerful a genetic factor the cropout overo gene is, or
how quickly it can be intensified and proliferated. And I’m doubtful that they
understand how two minimal-white overo Paint Horses, when bred to each other,
often produce offspring with 70 to 90 percent white.
Reisinger says that with the APHA’s
104, 000 members, and the AQHA’s 345,000 members, the opportunities of a wider
market may become more appealing. “I wonder if the AQHA leadership might
underestimated the appeal of our capitalistic, free-enterprise economy as it
relates to the new rule change. If I were a Quarter Horse breeder, and was
handed an opportunity to breed excess-white Quarter Horses with the potential
of appealing to a 25 percent larger sales market, I would have to consider
doing just that,” he says.
As a Paint Horse breeder, he adds,
the AQHA rule change presents an even more appealing scenario: A Paint Horse
breeding program can now be engineered-using a double registered stallion and a
single-or double-registered Quarter Horse mares- to potentially produce 100
percent registered Quarter Horses. With the right set of double registered
mares and/or single registered Quarter Horse mares with overo markers, that
same program has the potential to produce 90 percent double-registered horses.
“And the Paint Horse breeder has now
been given the opportunity to build a breeding program that’s totally free of
Breeding-Stock horses, and with the potential of appealing to a 300 percent
larger sales market”, Reisinger says. What would you do?”
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Conclusive Delight |
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