"Breed the best to the best and hope for the best shrug horsemen".
Whichever horsemen said that, has no clue about horse breeding at all. I don't care which one said it. You don't breed the best to the best that's something a child would think of. "Point Given and Azeri they're two champions lets throw them in a breeding shed and hope for the best" *shrug*. Breeding horses does have something of a system, you find a right match. You don't just go half cocked into a situation like that especially when you're personally involved in helping to create a life. If you want the science part of breeding a mathmetician has created a system that calculates the percentages of grade 1 winners between a given pair of thoroughbreds, I wish I could remember the site name and what it was called. I think you would find it intresting to note that the pairing of Dynaformer and La Ville Rouge was at 506% off the charts so to speak, a very useful tool that will no doubt come in handy in the future of horse breeding.
