Breeding trotters to pacers and vice versa

[sdog]

can it be done, has it been done, and has it failed or succeeded on the whole?????

[mango]

La Coocaracha was bred to be a pacer she is by Safely Kept out of Poetry but turned out to be a champion trotting mare winning $428k, Safely Kept has thrown a number of trotters out of pacing mare's. Take a look at her breeding as she has 3 live foals by trotting stallions and also 3 live foals by pacing stallions. I couldn't tell you if it has succeeded or not i just thought you could have a look at her breeding and foals as an example.

[sdog]

thanks mango, i am from a galloping background and on the whole pacers look very closely related, it would be great to get some off that different blood that the trotting sire and mares offer......

[Don Corleone]

Hey sdog (love the name), yes you can. I had a trotting mare that I bred to pacing and she had 5 foals - all winners............which leads me to think why I haven't done it more often. Good luck.

[Greg Hando]

sdog look back through Christian Cullen's breeding a lot of good trotter's back in it

[Neil]

we had a Sundon out of the grandmother of Cullen - the year before our sales purchase they got $80k+ for I think a falcon and we purchased the Sundon for $9k. Yes fammily of True Roman but not a commecially smart decision.

PS the Sundon didn't win a real race - only 1 2yo non tote.