This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julia Will wrote: > .... Of these 33 BEAUTIFUL stallions, only NINE were > given a temporary license to breed.
Some food for thought on this: Each year in Norway there are around 650 foals born. Half of these (325) will be colts, so this year about one in ten colts made it to the three year old level. Of these thirty-three, nine were selected, giving us about one colt in 35, and after the five year old station test you are down to maybe 5 to 7 being left from the original 325 colt group. 5 out of 325 is 1.5% being judged good enough to reproduce! (these numbers are just averages, there are no quotas) But it goes to show, even when you are breeding the best to the best (since these horses ancestors all went through this system): A very good stallion really is one horse in a hundred. Lori
