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Mrs DJ
Posted - 20 Sep 2009 : 5:29:35 PM Hope this is in the correct forum.
Just a general query, and I hope I don't seem thick .
My mare is 98.69% Crabbet. If I bred her to a 100% Crabbet stallion, then I presume the resulting foal would be higher % than she is.
If the foal was a filly, and was also bred to a 100% Crabbet, and had a filly who was paired with a 100%.....and so on and on...... does this mean that somewhere down the line you could produce a foal that would itself be classed as 100% Crabbet????
Sorry if this seems a bit dim
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Clutha
Posted - 07 Oct 2009 : 7:34:26 PM The highest you could get to from a non-pure (ie 100%) foundation is 99.99%. 100% is only awarded to horses with total Crabbet breeding. If there are any other lines, no matter how little or how far back, the progeny are never 100%, there is no 'rounding-up'. For conformation of this go to The Crabbet Organisation website. Hope that helps
barbara.gregory
Posted - 20 Sep 2009 : 8:18:27 PM No, same as straight Egyptians, have to be 100% with no other blood there however far back in the pedigree you look. 100% Crabbet means exactly that, no other blood anywhere in the pedigree except Crabbet.
Barbara
Kharidian
Posted - 20 Sep 2009 : 6:37:25 PM Mrs DJ, In answer to your first question, of course you're right - the foal would be 99.345% Crabbet.
With regard to your second question - well, I see what you're getting at but strictly speaking you'd never actually get to 100%, would you? OK, you could round the figures up but that's not the same! As I understand it, 100% Crabbet horses are solely "descended from those bred by Lady Anne and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and their daughter Lady Wentworth at Crabbet Park and Sheykh Obeyd" (taken from the Crabbet Organisation Homepage).
However, someone more knowledgeable than me would be able to advise if 99.something could ever be classed as 100% but IMO I wouldn't have thought so.
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