This stragegy usuall involves some linebreeding. A nother important strategy is to campaign horses in showing or trials to demonstrate the breed's capabilities to the public. This is all important as well, and may not involve breeding horses at all. Every breeding program benefits from having its products out in use in some form or another, for this the main way that horses catch the public eye. Not everyone needs to be a campaigner, but all breeds certainly need the folks that do this.
E very breed benefits from having a variety of breeders accomplishing a variety of strategies.
These strategies strengthen one another, and the breed as a whole then reaps great rewards. Although it seems chaotic at times, it is actually beneficial to have each breeder going in a slightly different direction, so that the breed maintains genetic viability while being true to its genetic heritage. This site set-up and maintained by Steve King of Wheelgate Farm, with assistance from text and photographs provided by Jane Scott. Link to this web site's main index . . .