breeding value

An Eclipse Award can also increase a horse's breeding value by $1 million or more.

Neither side has revealed the price, though industry officials estimate Vindication's breeding value could eventually reach $30 million.

FN breeding values list him as one of the most versatile sires.

Breeding values also help to predict future levels of milk production, which makes it easier to deal with quota restrictions,' he said.

With less residual breeding value, there is no longer any point in breeding a horse who can not pay his way as a runner.

The horses are much cheaper, as the majority are geldings and have no breeding value.

The results of selective breeding were evident in the relationship between breeding values and their accuracy.

The decreasing residual breeding value of racehorses changed all the equations of the business.

A part of the seed is planted to determine the yielding ability, or breeding value, for any character of each plant.

With stallions, double registration may also increase their breeding value by widening the set of interested mare owners.

He developed mixed model equations to obtain best linear unbiased predictions of breeding values and, in general, any random effect.

Ritchey believes patience will increase Afleet Alex's breeding value.

Unregistered alpacas "have minimal breeding value, and are difficult to sell," Mr. Boyd said.

This entails, in particular, the ways in which warmblood studbooks select their breeding stock and how they calculate breeding values.

After the Belmont, Alysheba became widely regarded as a horse who needed Lasix to win, a reputation that would hurt his eventual breeding value.

Victory in Hialeah's major races significantly increases a horse's breeding value, whereas Calder offers no Grade I races.

At the studbook evaluation, a trotter-type horse must meet the standards in racing results and/or in breeding value index as decreed by Suomen Hippos.

While this means the horse loses any breeding value, a successful track career can often be a boost to the value of the stallion that sired the gelding.

Victory in Grade I events greatly enhances a horse's breeding value, and a horse's record in these races figures prominently in year-end championship voting.

Of the last five Kentucky Derby winners, only last year's victor, Funny Cide, a gelding with no breeding value, has mounted an extended campaign as an older horse.

Lower breeding values and higher racing purses may combine to keep horses racing longer, and their campaigns may be less subject to manipulation designed to pretty up their records for breeders.

Is the Kentucky Derby, the grandest of prizes in racing, also the costliest of prizes in racing, even though it can lead to a fortune in breeding value?

It is used in the breeding of both plants and animals, but is most commercially important in animal breeding to determine the true breeding value of an animal esp.

The results are being used to provide breed-specific parameters to improve the accuracy of Estimated Breeding Values (EBV) produced by Australia's national performance testing scheme for meat sheep.

Dogs with more accurate breeding values produced more progeny, with clustering of breeding values with higher accuracy indicative of better hip joint confirmation.