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	<title>Comments on: 100 years of Epsom Derby data</title>
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		<title>By: sidfernando</title>
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		<dc:creator>sidfernando</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>good points, roger.</description>
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		<title>By: Roger Lyons</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roger Lyons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sid,

Sid, I would just add that inbreeding of all kinds in the major NA commercial market is always higher than in the NA stakes population, including inbreeding through the sire-line cross, which is 10.8% among NA stakes winners last year. In Europe they&#039;re crossing Northern Dancer branches like crazy, which probably accounts for a substantial part of the elevated level among stakes winners worldwide, and their key advantage is that you can actually do balance-of-factors sire-line crosses through different branches of Northern Dancer line, as you suggest in regard to Sadler&#039;s Wells and Danzig crosses. It could well be, though, that balance-of-factors breeding is more important for the few races of the very highest class.</description>
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<p>Sid, I would just add that inbreeding of all kinds in the major NA commercial market is always higher than in the NA stakes population, including inbreeding through the sire-line cross, which is 10.8% among NA stakes winners last year. In Europe they&#8217;re crossing Northern Dancer branches like crazy, which probably accounts for a substantial part of the elevated level among stakes winners worldwide, and their key advantage is that you can actually do balance-of-factors sire-line crosses through different branches of Northern Dancer line, as you suggest in regard to Sadler&#8217;s Wells and Danzig crosses. It could well be, though, that balance-of-factors breeding is more important for the few races of the very highest class.</p>
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