To assist with this process, the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Association met with Dr. Gus Cothran at the University of Kentucky Animal Pathology Lab on March 2, 1998. Our goal was to seek advice about the ASD condition from a geneticist's point of view and determine what role the University of Kentucky could play in support of the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse. A survey of the population will be done and a database of the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse stallions created.
Pedigree analysis can confirm the eye condition.
Confidential information will be maintained on stallions' birth date, color, color of sire and dam, pedigree, blood typing, and eye condition. The possibility of a link between color and ASD can also be explored. The extent to which the ASD condition affects the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse can be established. The association is dedicated to the preservation and betterment of the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse. All decisions are made with that goal in mind.