{"id":6594,"date":"2008-09-18T21:51:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=6594","title":{"rendered":"What are (not only our simulated) thoroughbreds bred for?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>In memoriam Malt Capote 1999-2004(2)<\/SPAN>

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\u201cEvery horse story is a love story.\u201d Jane Smiley<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/EM><\/SPAN><\/H1>

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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Some time ago Shilofire initiated a quite interesting discussion on the simsport messageboard about line- and inbreeding. There he stated:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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\u201cThoroughbreds, at least most thoroughbreds, are bred for one thing only\u2026 racing.\u201d<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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I don\u2019t know exactly why this phrase incited my attention, maybe it was the exclusivity of the word \u201conly\u201d that bothered me most in the above quote. But I\u2019ll try to work some things\u00a0 <\/SPAN>out in this little essay and finally I want to show you a different point of view. At the same time I am looking forward to offer you some interior views of my simlife in what will hopefully become a series of articles.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>At first I tried to research a bit the semantics of the matter. Since English is not my native language, I consulted my \u201cOxford Advanced Learner\u2019s Dictionary of Current English\u201d from old school days, edition 1982, and looked up some definitions.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Well, the first one sounded pretty obvious:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Racehorse- \u201chorse specially bred for racing\u201d<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

I seemed to be off the track, although the word \u201cracehorse\u201d didn\u2019t appear in the quotation.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The next one:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Thoroughbred- \u201c(animal especially a horse) of pure breed\u201d<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Slowly I felt like getting stuck in a dead end street and you had to wonder frankly how I would ever get out of there.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Back to subject: bred for racing. Really, I still couldn\u2019t believe, bred for racing?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Let me take a look at real life racing. Where I live there\u2019s a law, a rule or standard for nearly everything, that\u2019s notorious, here we are famous for it. So I searched the internet for thoroughbred and horseracing. Guess, what I found out? I ran directly into a homepage from our ministry(3) for food, farming and consumer care with lots of laws concerning the rights of breeding animals like for example cows, pigs and natural equines. There it was, a paragraph(4) concerning the purpose of horseracing mainly as an efficiency test to separate(5) the better horses(permitted for breeding) from the not so good ones(breeding forbidden!). Do you understand, what this really means? This means a horse like Funny Cide(6) never could have won the Derby here, staged on the first Sunday of July every year in Hamburg-Horn, because geldings aren\u2019t allowed to run in the Derby here. Only for the reason that you can not breed with them. We are talking about a clash of cultures, what do you mean?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>What am I doing here? Temporal or conceptual reversion?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Bred for racing : race for breeding!?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

In the sim my horses are racing mediocre, at best. My overall winning percentage is roughly 10%. So, as I breed me a new horse I have always the next generation already in my mind. I think breeding really is one of the most funny parts -in the sim. I probably\u00a0 <\/SPAN>spend more time thinking about breedings, researching pedigrees, etc. than looking for races. In case the new horse doesn\u2019t excel as a racehorse it can still turn out to be useful broad mare:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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BIXO 9 Year Old Mare Historical Grade : \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0G(7)<\/SPAN><\/P>

Lineage \u00a0 Sire SUMMER SQUALL Dam Sire MR. PROSPECTOR Dam’s Dam Sire BOLDWOOD<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Races 15<\/SPAN> \u00a0 <\/SPAN>Wins 2 \u00a0 ITM 2 \u00a0 $ Earned $26,696<\/SPAN> \u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Progeny
Offspring Year Foaled Age Sex Status Snapshot
BINIARAIX(KY) 2008 2 F Active $157K, 5r, 4w \u2013 SW\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(Corinthian)
KAHUKU(KY) 2007 3 M Active $92K, 15r, 3w \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(Badge of Silver)
BARBUDA(IRE) 2006 4 F Active $50K, 18r, 2w \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(Castledale)
PRASLIN 2005 5 F Active $206K, 33r, 7w – SW \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(Tapit)
BANJOL 2004 6 F Retired $66K, 29r, 1w – SP \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(Milwaukee Brew)<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>

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For next season I am planning to send her again to a son of Pulpit.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>

She also is already grandma, two times:<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>

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BANJOL 6 Year Old Mare Historical Grade : \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0F \u00a0\u00a0
Progeny
Offspring Year Foaled Age Sex Status Snapshot
WALK UNAFRAID(AUS) 2008 2 M Active $0K, 3r, 0w \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Flying Pegasus)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
BUDDENBROOK(FL) 2007 3 M Active $112K, 16r, 6w – SP \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Congrats)<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>

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5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>What is it all about? What is my promised antithesis? Bred for breeding? No, there still must be some sportive character, otherwise I had to play simfarming and would not be a kind of addicted to derbyfever for more than 8 years. So my pompous final statement for\u00a0 <\/SPAN>today is also the goal where I\u2019ll have to work hard at it, to get there maybe in the future:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Some horse of course are famous for two things.(8)<\/SPAN><\/I><\/B><\/P>


(1)\u00a0Already bored in advance?<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV>

(2)One of my original horses in the Saturn stable. My very first graded winner in week 1117 and furthermore also my first grade 1 winner in week 1222. Amusingly he asked for a lot of patience in his early days, because he came often back injured from his first races, so I got the advice on Iago\u2019s board(today called new players help board) to send him straight into claim races. Luckily I refused to do so.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV>

(3)\u00a0Here one might imagine any arguments against wearing any buttons representing any political party or other propaganda, neither myself, nor any fictional alter ego.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV>

(4)\u00a0<\/SPAN>Another paragraph cares for genetically diversity.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV>

(5)\u00a0Compare: Cinderella. A fairy-tale written down by the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV>

(6)\u00a0Kentucky Derby winner<\/FONT><\/P><\/DIV>

(7)\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Also look at the excellent article: What\u2019s in a broadmare. Part 2, by Kbsweet, Btb 2008<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV>

(8)\u00a0compare: What\u2019s in a broadmare. Part 8(?), by Kbsweet, unpublished<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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