Letters toWT
Dear editor, Thanks again for all you have done for The Colorado Thera-
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py Horses (article from July/August 2014). Warmbloods Today has single handedly put us on the map! Since the issue came out we have jumped 200% in participation from local groups wanting to “meet the horses in the pasture.” We have secured a relationship with the Veterans Administration and will be getting referrals of vets with PTSD. We have had a group of autistic High School students and 30 elementary school stu- dents with learning difficulties visit recently. And the list goes on for groups that want to come next spring. Right now we have about 25 people come out each week to enjoy building a relationship with a horse. And, we have our first donated horse, Decorated, a
10-year-old Trakehner from Florida who was an up and com- ing jumper and suffered from failed surgery. He was just donated to us and now is on his second career ‘healing the hearts of humans.’ We also may be getting another Trakehner with similar issues. Every time I meet or speak with a group I leave your maga-
zine for them to read. Everyone, even the non-horse people, are super impressed with the publication. Thank you again for publishing our story. —Richard McMahon, The Colorado Therapy Horses / The Wounded Human Project
Dear editor, I am responding to your article, “Common Bloodlines Ana-
lyzed, Top WEG Horses Considered,” that ran in November/ December 2014. As usual, except for a consolidated mention at the beginning of the article with the names of well known Thoroughbred stallions who appear multiple times in pedi- grees of horses in the article, no actual Thoroughbred sires or dams were given for individual horses competing. When exactly does it sink in to the Warmblood breeders or magazines, that the Thoroughbred portion of the pedi- gree and the names of those horses are equally as important and equally influence the resulting foal? They just never get the credit or the research and are just consolidated into the Warmblood lines present. Head to desk to head bang! Can I possibly make it clear
to any of you that learning these Thoroughbred ancestors is also equally as important because of what they bring to the table? I am so sick of hearing or reading, “I don’t know much
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about the Thoroughbred side of the pedigree”… REALLY??? Then you don’t know the pedigree because it’s there and its placement has the same amount of influence as the Warm- bloods at the same spot. I see ads that read volumes about the Warmblood sire and don’t even mention the dam’s name if she is a Thoroughbred, even as we continually preach about the importance of the mareline. So which is it? Maybe you should re-read this article and re-write it plug-
ging in the Thoroughbred names for the pedigrees Of Chilli Morning, Fischer Rocana FST, Opgun Louvo, Casall Ask, Vale- gro, Parzival, Furioso xx, Portersize Just A Jiff and any others I missed. Because, hey—GUESS WHAT—this is a completely incomplete “analysis” of the top WEG horses! Did that not oc- cur to you when you wrote it, Judy Wardrope, or did you just decide arbitrarily that the Thoroughbreds in the pedigree don’t matter and don’t deserve to be named? REALLY???? So you can selectively decide which ancestors matter and which don’t regardless of numbers or how close? REALLY?? Yeah, I’m upse—it’s gets damned old and ridiculous and
arrogant for any of you to believe they produced these horses without ALL the ancestors, INCLUDING the Thoroughbreds, who all have a name and a valid history as sires and dams in the sporthorse industry. They deserve as much recognition by name and as being a Thoroughbred. Just wanted to let you know—you can’t have a Warm-
blood or a Warmblood magazine without the Thoroughbred influence—whether you choose to recognize it or not. —Penny Garzarek, The Krugerrand Run Farm, Alabama
Response from the author: That particular article was not intended to identify individual
ancestors. It was intended to show patterns. Period. And I had to work within a word count limit for the article which can cause some limitations. However, while some ads—and articles—may leave out information about Thoroughbred lines, I stand by the premise of this article and its analysis of the breeding patterns demon- strated by the recent WEG horses. It is funny that in this instance I am criticized for being not
pro-Thoroughbred enough, while with other articles I have been told I was too pro-Thoroughbred. I agree with Ms. Garzarek about the value of Thoroughbred bloodlines. In fact, I own a Thoroughbred stallion for sport because I believe that an infu- sion of the ‘right’ Thoroughbred blood is essential to the modern Warmblood. —Judy Wardrope
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