Breeding for Amateurs or Breeding for Professionals?

From The Horse Magazine:

Christopher Hector looks at some interesting new research….

As long as I have been writing about Sporthorse breeding, this question has been one of the ongoing sources of debate. As far back as 2001, I interviewed Dr Gerd Lehmann who was for 30 years – from 1966 until 1995 – the head of the Westfalien State Stud and is the man credited with turning a basically agricultural group of horses into the modern sport horse type. Read more here...