Playing with pedigrees

In Bar's case, pedigrees don't mean much. He is, after all, a gelding. No progeny for my boy.

But in my curiosity about him, about where he came from, I found this video of a nice little mare out of what looks to be Bar's half sister. (Her dam--Never A Question--seems to have had the same sire, Jett Sett Joe.)



In Lena's case, it means we could probably breed her and breed her well if we wanted a cutting horse baby. Or a baby at all. Which we don't. Okay, mostly we don't.

It's just part of my never-ending quest to figure just a little bit more out about my horses.

Horses and the internet

Trying to find reliable horse information on the internet can be both time-consuming and not very fruitful. It's also downright scary if you're looking up symptoms or health issues. (Which I mostly avoid dong because, well, I'm really enough of a worry-wort as it is.)

Sometimes you can find fun stuff, though, like your horse's pedigree online.

Oddly enough (or maybe not), if you go back a bit on both Lena's and Bar's pedigrees, you find Man O'War.

I actually don't care much about what genetics make up my two horses. Their personalities mean more to me than the bloodlines they came from, though I am glad they both inherited good confirmation.