Quote Originally Posted by peacheymagic View Post
When will the number of mares a stallion can be served be capped at a certain number say 200 like in the thoroughbred industry. Don't people think by having stallions serving such high numbers of broodmares we are going to ruin the harness racing industry by reducing the genetic pool, especially with the number of colonial sires currently standing in both NZ and Australia? Or are we going to rely on Northern hemisphere stallions to introduce new blood into the bred down under?
That problem is more of a problem here in the states than it would be down under as we are jammed with the same blood. I think that it will not be long before the US breeders will be looking to New Zealand and Australia for more outcross blood. I can see that day but the breeders here will not believe it but believe me it will happen. The likes of Lombo Pocket Watch, Christian Cullen, Auckland Reactor if he gets back on track etc etc etc. There must be others there. Oh I just thought of Changeover as he is by In The Pocket, a great horse that never got a go here in the US as he was owned by George Shaw an unpopular guy here and I do not believe a horse owned by one man has much of a chance here unless a major stud gets behind him or he is syndicated.